Walter Becker Quotes

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.

I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.

The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.

The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.

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

Under Freud's influence, many ambitious biographers - not to mention psychologists, philosophers, and historians - have sought answers in their subject's childhood.