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"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."
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"I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years."
"Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand."
"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."
"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."
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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."
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