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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."
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"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."
"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."
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"I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition."
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"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."
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