Karl Kraus Quotes

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the nasty remarks that follow.

I don't want to do anything Freudian.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.

I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

Freud was just a novelist.

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments.

I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal.