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I've always thought that Freud's theory of penis envy was fairly ridiculous -- but I'm absolutely certain that if you put a piece of bread in your mouth and suck on it you'll go to heaven.


Anna Quindlen


#psychoanalysis #imagination

As adults, we hvae many inhibitions against crying. We feel it is an expression of weakness, or femininity or of childishness. The person who is afraid to cry is afraid of pleasure. This is because the person who is afraid to cry holds himself together rigidly so that he won't cry; that is, the rigid person is as afraid of pleasure as he is afraid to cry. In a situation of pleasure he will become anxious. As his tensions relax he will begin to tremble and shake, and he will attempt to control this trembling so as not to break down in tears. His anxiety is nothing more than the conflict between his desire to let go and his fear of letting go. This conflict will arise whenever the pleasure is strong enough to threaten his rigidity. Since rigidity develops as a means to block out painful sensations, the release of rigidity or the restoration of the natural motility of the body will bring these painful sensations to the fore. Somewhere in his unconscious the neurotic individual is aware that pleasure can evoke the repressed ghosts of the past. It could be that such a situation is responsible for the adage "No pleasure without pain.


Alexander Lowen


#crying #emotions #feelings #letting-go #psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.


Bette Davis


#almost #analysis #decided #go #i

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.


Sigmund Freud


#bed #between #character #connection #intimate

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.


Stephen King


#become #big #big fan #bother #fan

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.


William Gibson


#engineering #psychoanalysis #psychology #design

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.


Mason Cooley


#fee #only #psychoanalysis #seems

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.


Sigmund Freud


#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #love #lovers #psychiatry

O homem não tem nada melhor para fazer do que tentar estar em perfeito acordo consigo mesmo.


Sigmund Freud


#psychoanalysis #inspirational

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.


Germaine Greer


#confession #psychoanalysis #without






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