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I... had my mind blown by all the opportunities that were in California in the '60s and '70s. In Detroit, everything was Freud... Out here, everything was Jung.

— Leonard Shlain

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places.

— Thomas R. Insel

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.

— Big Sean

I was in Jungian analysis for 20 years, 1976-96.

— Peter Eisenman

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

— Buzz Aldrin

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

I was born in the 1980s, so learning about the late 1960s was really fascinating, not only just because of the way things looked and sounded but because of what was going on in society at that time.

— Claire Holt

I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was raised by self-loathing Midwesterners who were from southern Illinois, who felt like fish out of water when they came to the East Coast when I was a kid.

— Meghan Daum

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

— Lionel Hampton

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

— Kaskade

I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.

— Michael Sheen