(171 votes)   The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(147 votes)   Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(146 votes)   Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(145 votes)   Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(134 votes)   The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

Sigmund Freud
1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis

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(131 votes)   Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.

Thomas Szasz
1920-, American Psychiatrist

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(124 votes)   Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(120 votes)   Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.

Thomas Szasz
1920-, American Psychiatrist

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(119 votes)   The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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(115 votes)   Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.

Sir Peter Medawar
1915-1987, British Immunologist

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(113 votes)   The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

Charles Horton Cooley
1864-1929, American Sociologist

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(108 votes)   The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated -- namely, the lavatory.

Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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(108 votes)   When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, ''Boss you can't do that.''

Charles F. Kettering
1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor

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(106 votes)   Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

Michel Foucault
1926-1984, French Essayist, Philosopher

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(102 votes)   He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

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