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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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"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."
"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."
"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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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
"Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know."
"I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world."
"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
"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."
"Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power."
"Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it."
"No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself."
"Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs."
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