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“Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images that guide, or compel, the lives of the rest of us. If we are not careful we...”
“The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patients conversion to the therapists interpretation.”
“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist that he substitutes private psychological causes and explanations for social and historical...”
“The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.”
“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist ei”
“This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots.… fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt.”―Distancing, Kantor (p.115)”
“what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.”
“It takes two to tango” isn’t even true on the dance floor. One person can do a lot of evil all on his or her own. But the Theory of Mutual Blame arose sometime before Doc was even born. Perhaps it ...”
“The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.”
