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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.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

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

The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

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

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.