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Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

Germaine Greer
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

Karl Kraus
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[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.

Nora Ephron
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Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney
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People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.

R. Z. Sheppard
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But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

Jacques Derrida
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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Marlon Brando
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Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Robert Hughes
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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown
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