Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud

Psychology

1856–1939

"A woman should soften but not weaken a man."

🇦🇹Otto Rank

Psychology

1884–1939

"While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general."

🇫🇷Jean-François Lyotard

Philosophy

Continental philosophy

1924–1998

"Already in the last few decades, economic powers have reached the point of imperiling the stability of the state through new forms of the circulation of capital that go by the generic name of multinational corporations."

🇦🇹Wilhelm Stekel

Psychology

1868–1940

"Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise."

🇦🇹Alfred Adler

Medicine

Neo-Freudianism

1870–1937

"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

🇺🇸Jonathan Lear

Philosophy

1948–2025

"Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it."

"International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology"

Wilhelm Reich

Psychology

Freudo-Marxism

1897–1957

"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."

🇺🇸Karen Horney

Literature

1885–1952

"Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning."

🇺🇸Stanislav Grof

Psychology

b. 1931

"Stan Grof MP3 audio - from Shift in Action, sponsored by Institute of Noetic Sciences"

🇩🇪Arno Gruen

Psychology

1923–2015

"Our own vitality as well as that of others frightens us, if it still manages to surface, we respond with rage and turn against our own freedom. It is vitality itself that we are opposing."

🇫🇷Julia Kristeva

Literature

Post-structuralism

b. 1941

"The text is a practice that could be compared to political revolution: the one brings about in the subject what the other introduces into society."

🇨🇦Marion Woodman

Literature

1928–2018

"Thank you, dear Sophia. From every cell in my broken body, my radiant body, I thank you. I am alive. I am free... to live... to die."