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“The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, 'If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.”
Theodor Reik
“We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death”
“Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.”
“Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.”
“He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.”
“Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning”
“Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.”