#analysis

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#evil #psychoanalysis #religion #religion

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#psychoanalysis #psychology #sexuality #subconscious #yoga

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? ↗

— David Byrne

#edges #like #lobotomy #off #shaved

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#admit #analysis #control #final #final analysis

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#mind #obvious #seldom #simple #solutions

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #becomes #constant #domain #even

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #between #ideas #investigation #mediator

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#bone #closer #cuts #err #establishing

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#freud #had #mother #psychoanalysis

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#answers #conception #death #decides #last