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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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"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."

"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations."

"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
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