#freud

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know. ↗

— Dario Argento

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Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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Love is the most pleasurable pain imaginable, and I have experienced more pain-pleasure than a German twin experiencing schadenfreude at the expense of his brother. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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