Psychoanalysis - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the child and the adult through psychoanalysis shows that all the sufferings of later life are for the most part repetitions of these earlier ones, and that every child in the first years of life goes through and immeasurable degree of suffering. — Melanie Klein

How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition ... The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction for this obscene call, ENJOY, is superego. The problem today is not how to get rid of your inhibitions and to be able to spontaneously enjoy. The problem is how to get rid of this injunction to enjoy. — Slavoj Žižek

In psychoanalytical theory there is a phenomenon called transference. The therapist becomes a blank screen, onto which the patient projects some incident or feeling that began in childhood... it would...

It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis.

...it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.

Here's the second joke: Two psychiatrists meet on the street and say hello. How are you? asks one. Eh, not so good, says the other. I had a stupid misunderstanding, a slip of the tongue. I was...

You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left and right. You have to protest constantly just to...

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