Psychoanalyst

Sigmund Freud

Psychology

1856–1939

"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."

Slavoj Žižek

Philosophy

Lacanianism

b. 1949

"I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutions around the corner."

Erich Fromm

Psychology

Frankfurt School

1900–1980

"Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

🇺🇸Lloyd deMause

Psychology

1931–2020

"Most ethnologists scrupulously avoid describing how these children feel about participating in the killing or eating of their siblings."

"International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology"

🇩🇪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."

🇺🇸Judith Butler

Philosophy

Post-structuralism

b. 1956

"Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself."

🇺🇸Karen Horney

Literature

1885–1952

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

🇺🇸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."

🇨🇦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."

🇦🇹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."

🇦🇹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."