Norman Doidge  - Quotes

 Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243) 

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Norman Doidge  - Quotes

 Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to  

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Yann Martel  - Quotes

 Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building 

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Erich Fromm  - Quotes

 There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. 

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Sigmund Freud  - Quotes

 (Said of the Irish)  

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Arthur Rimbaud  - Quotes

 ...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it 

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Erich Fromm  - Quotes

 A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet  

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Robert Littell  - Quotes

 Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed. 

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Gaston Bachelard  - Quotes

 Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives. 

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Sebastian Horsley  - Quotes

 Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. 

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Sigmund Freud  - Quotes

 O homem n 

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Wilhelm Reich  - Quotes

 Fui acusado de ser um ut 

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Diana Gabaldon  - Quotes

 We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/? 

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Wilhelm Reich  - Quotes

 A vida brota a partir de milhares de fontes vibrantes, entrega-se  

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Jiddu Krishnamurti  - Quotes

 Analysis does not transform consciousness. 

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Anthony De Mello  - Quotes

 The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet's greatness is contained in his words; yet the study of his words will not disclose his inspiration. God reveals himself in creation; but scrutinize creation as minutely as you wish, you will not find God, any more than you will find the soul through careful examination of your body. 

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Chuck Klosterman  - Quotes

 If you've spent any time trolling the blogosphere, you've probably noticed a peculiar literary trend: the pervasive habit of writers inexplicably placing exclamation points at the end of otherwise unremarkable sentences. Sort of like this! This is done to suggest an ironic detachment from the writing of an expository sentence! It's supposed to signify that the writer is self-aware! And this is idiotic. It's the saddest kind of failure. F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is that even the writer can't tell if what they're creating is supposed to be meaningful, frivolous, or cruel. It's an attempt to insert humor where none exists, on the off chance that a potential reader will only be pleased if they suspect they're being entertained. Of course, the reader isn't really sure, either. They just want to know when they're supposed to pretend to be amused. All those extraneous exclamation points are like little splatters of canned laughter: They represent the  

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Jean Lorrain  - Quotes

 It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror. 

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Wilhelm Reich  - Quotes

 The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life. 

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Erich Fromm  - Quotes

 La raison d 

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Wilhelm Reich  - Quotes

 The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.  

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Andrew Luciuk  - Quotes

 Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. 

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