#psycho

We are gods with anuses. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#human-condition #humor #philosofy #psychology #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

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#everyone #excusing #i #mean #needs

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#also #because #came #could #crazy

There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood. ↗

— Julie Brown

#catholic #catholic school #dysfunction #family #funny

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward. ↗

— Aberjhani

#determination #dreams #inspiration #metaphysics #motivation

The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#archetype #children #dreams #psychology #symbolism

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#psychiatry #psychoanalysis #psychology #love

Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?" Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#ideas #psychology #love

They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#psychology #marriage