And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
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Related It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditione... WILLIAM GOLDING I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to en... STANISLAV GROF In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classic... ZHANG ZHIDONG Freud is all nonsense; the secret of neurosis is to be found in the family battle of wills to see wh... JULIAN MITCHELL Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations... DALAI LAMA Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic populariza... WILLIAM GOLDING As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western... CHRISTOPHER DAWSON Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the prac... DAVID AUGSBURGER In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is o... VIRCHAND GANDHI No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into... DYLAN THOMAS Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do no... MORTIMER ADLER Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. GERMAINE GREER Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. GERMAINE GREER And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. CHAIM POTOK Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translate... NATHANIEL BRANDEN Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion. YAIR LAPID Two games in four days is brutal. You have to be just short of Sigmund Freud to figure out this one. ORONDE GADSDEN Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there. JACQUES LACAN This and countless later experiences working in and around the world of "shrinks" and the mentally i... OLIVER JAMES This is another piece of good news for rail to Dulles. We are almost finished with preliminary engin... GERALD E. CONNOLLY I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them ... SIGMUND FREUD Freud: If its not one thing, its your mother. ROBIN WILLIAMS They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men ... RAY BRADBURY There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it w... TONY CAMPOLO The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most p... HUSTON SMITH Other pressing problems with the current medical model [of mental disorder] is that it encourages fa... NEEL BURTON Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets ... SIGMUND FREUD Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without pr... GARY ZUKAV Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without pr... GARY ZUKAV My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is large... PETER GAY If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me,... ANNE ROIPHE Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of... HAROLD BLOOM The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectifi... HENRY FLYNT The recipe for a human doesn't fill up a shopping list as you may suspect. Just twenty-two eleme... KYLE HILL If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psycho... CATHY CARUTH The ideas of Freud w...
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It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian ... HAROLD BLOOM No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. GRAHAM GREENE I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education i... MALALA YOUSAFZAI ...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce. TAD WILLIAMS To regret religion is to regret Western civilization. THEODORE DALRYMPLE Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not pr... E. O. WILSON We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior ... SIGMUND FREUD I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the pri... FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple. VIGGO MORTENSEN To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not... HAROLD BLOOM Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally en... PANKAJ MISHRA A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She c... AYAAN HIRSI ALI The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received... SIGMUND FREUD The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come f... JIM CRACE Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother. ROBIN WILLIAMS In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view ... DENNIS PRAGER You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the mu... ORNETTE COLEMAN Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Wood... BILLY COLLINS In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing. GILLES DELEUZE Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are. RICHARD GERE If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think the... ABRAHAM MASLOW Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Moth... RICK WAKEMAN It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly. CHAIM POTOK All religions are mere echoes of this one great religion of Humanism. ABHIJIT NASKAR There is yet another class that, having found that their own religion not only prevents free thinkin... MOHAMMED ALI MUHIYADDIN Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at al... JOHN TRAVOLTA The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of th... MARIA MONTESSORI It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the pur... 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BOBBI FARIA The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particu... JOHN SPONG These adjustments around the Western General are a good example of how we can integrate different me... ANDREW BURNS Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capaci... DAN QUAYLE Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships. DANIEL GOLEMAN
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