100 Psychology Phrases you should know

100 Psychology Phrases you should know. Get to know the phrases and thoughts of the main authors: Freud, Jung, Lacan, Skinner, Rogers, Maslow, Piaget.

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1) Quotes and Thoughts of Sigmund Freud

“When the pain of not living is greater than the fear of change, the person changes” (Freud)

“Where was the Id (That) must come the I (ego) – In German – Wo Es war, soll Ich werden”.

“We could be so much better if we didn’t want to be so good” (Freud)

“We are not only what we think we are. We are more; we are also what we remember and what we forget; we are the words we exchange, the mistakes we make, the impulses we give in to, unintentionally” (Freud)

“Ultimately, we need to love in order not to get sick” (Freud)

“A dream is a (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed or repressed) wish” (Freud)

“The neuroses are determined by the individual’s love history” (Freud)

“Modern science has not yet produced a tranquilizing medicine as effective as a few good words are” (Freud)

“There are moments in people’s lives, when words lose their meaning or seem useless, and, no matter how much we think of a way to use them, they don’t seem to work. So we don’t say, we just feel” (Freud)

“Psychoanalysis is, in essence, a love cure” (Freud)

“Thought is the rehearsal of action” (Freud)

“We can defend ourselves against an attack, but we are defenseless against a compliment” (Freud)

“One day, when you look back, you will see that the most beautiful days were those in which you fought” (Freud)

“Happiness is an individual problem. Here, any advice is valid. Each one must seek, for himself, to become happy” (Freud)

“The progressive renunciation of instincts seems to be one of the foundations of the development of human civilization” (Freud)

2) Quotes and Thoughts by CG Jung

“Know all theories, master all techniques, but when you touch a human soul, just be another human soul” (CG Jung)

“He who looks outside dreams. But what looks inside wakes up” (CG Jung)

“What we do not face in ourselves, we will find as destiny” (CG Jung)

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves” (CG Jung)

“Free will is the ability to happily do what I should do” (CG Jung)

“Just as he who hurts another hurts himself, he who heals, heals himself” (CG Jung)

“Only what we really are has the power to heal us.” (CG Jung)

“Sooner or later everything turns into its opposite” (CG Jung)

“The main objective of Psychological Therapy is not to transport the patient to an impossible state of happiness, but to help him acquire firmness and patience in the face of suffering. Life happens in the balance between joy and pain. Whoever does not venture beyond reality will never find the truth” (CG Jung)

“Shoes that look good on one person are too small for another; there is no recipe for life that fits all” (CG Jung)

“A neurosis is a sign of an accumulation of energy in the unconscious, to the point of being a charge capable of exploding” (CG Jung)

“There are things that are not yet true, which perhaps have no right to be true, but which may be true tomorrow” (CG Jung)

“The best political, social and spiritual work we can do is to stop projecting our shadows onto others” (CG Jung)

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method of dealing with the darkness of others” (CG Jung)

“Everything comes from far away and everything points to the future, nothing can be said with certainty if it is only the end or if it is already the beginning” (CG Jung)

“The man who does not go through the hell of his passions does not overcome them either. They move to the neighboring house and will be able to set the fire that will reach his house without him noticing” (CG Jung)

“But what will happen if I discover, perchance, that the smallest, the most admirable of all, the poorest of beggars, the most insolent of my slanderers, my enemy, resides within me, is myself, and needs the alms from my goodness, and that I myself am the enemy that must be loved?” (CG Jung)

“Your ideas areotas outside your self as the trees and animals are outside your body” (CG Jung)

“As experience shows, the objective psyche is autonomous to a high degree. If this were not the case, it would not be able to exercise its proper function, which is the compensation of conscience. Consciousness can be tamed like a parrot, but the unconscious cannot. That’s why Saint Augustine thanked God for not having made him responsible for his dreams” (CG Jung)

“As you share in the manifold nature of the world through your body, so you share in the manifold nature of the inner world through your soul. This inner world is really infinite and in no way poorer than the outer one. Human beings live in two worlds. A madman lives here and there, but never here and there” (CG Jung)

“…a person is male and female, not just a man or just a woman. Of your soul you cannot say what kind it is. But if you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and that the most feminine woman has a masculine soul. The more of a man you are, the further away from you what woman really is, because the feminine in yourself is foreign and despicable to you” (CG Jung)

“The knowledge of the truth is the highest intention of science and it is considered more a fatality than an intention if, in the search for the light, it provokes some danger or threat. It is not that today’s man is more capable of committing evil than the ancients or the primitive. The difference lies only in the fact that today he has in his hands incomparably more powerful means of asserting his evil. Though awareness of it has broadened and differentiated, its moral quality has lagged behind, not keeping pace. This is the big problem we face. Reason alone is no longer enough!” (CG Jung)

“The therapist is also in analysis, as much as the patient…which is why he is also exposed to transformative influences. To the extent that the therapist closes himself off from this influence, he also loses his influence on the patient” (CG Jung)

“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, there is always an opportunity to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in touch with other interests, so it is continually subject to change. But if it is repressed and cut off from consciousness, is never corrected, and may erupt suddenly in a moment of unconsciousness. Either way, it forms an unconscious hindrance, impeding our most well-meaning purposes” (CG Jung)

3) Quotes and Thoughts of Jacques Lacan

“The unconscious is structured like a language” (Lacan)

“I think where I am not; therefore, I am where I don’t think of myself” (Lacan)

“To love is to give what you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it” (Lacan)

“There is only love for a name” (Lacan)

“The truth can only be told in the meshes of fiction” (Lacan)

“All love is reciprocal, even when it is not reciprocated” (Lacan). Jacques Allain Miller was one of Lacan’s greatest commentators. About the sentence he says: “This sentence is repeated without understanding it or misunderstanding it. It doesn’t mean that it’s enough to love someone for them to love you. That would be absurd. It means: ‘If I love you, it’s because you are lovable. I am the one who loves, but you, you are also involved, because there is something in you that makes me love you. It is reciprocal because there is a back-and-forth: the love I have for you is the effect of the return of the cause of the love that you are for me. So you’re not there for nothing. My love for you is not only my business, but yours as well. My love says something about you that perhaps you yourself don’t know’. This in no way guarantees that the love of one will be responded to by the love of the other: this, when this happens, is always on the order of a miracle, it cannot be calculated in advance.

“Desire as real is not of the order of the word but of the act” (Lacan)

“You can know what you said, but never what others heard” (Lacan)

“The symptom is the inscription of the symbolic in the real” (Lacan)

“The symptom defines the way in which each one enjoys the unconscious, insofar as the unconscious determines it” (Lacan)

“The symptom is the signifier of a repressed meaning of the subject’s consciousness. it is a speech in full activity, since it includes the speech of the other in the secret of its code” (Lacan)

“There is only unconsciousness in the speaking being. The unconscious, that speaks” (Lacan)

“There is something unconscious, that is, something about language that escapes the subject in its structure and effects and that there is always at the level of language something that is beyond consciousness. That is where the function of desire can be situated” (Lacan)

4) Quotes and Thoughts by BF Skinner

“Science is the willingness to accept facts, even when they are opposed to wishes” (Skinner)

“The major problems facing the world today can only be solved if we improve our understanding of human behavior” (Skinner)

“Teaching is simply the arrangement of contingencies of reinforcement” (Skinner)

“What is Love if not another name for positive reinforcement?” (Skinner)

‎”Do not consider any practice as immutable. Change and be ready to change again. Do not accept eternal truth. Try it” (Skinner)

“Men act on the world, change it, and are changed by the consequences of their actions. Certain processes, and which the human organism shares with other species, alter behavior in such a way that it obtains a safer and more useful interchange with a particular environment. When appropriate behavior has been established, its consequences work through similar processes, increasing its force. If by chance the environment changes, old forms of behavior disappear, while new consequences build new forms” (Skinner)

“Self-knowledge has a special value for the individual himself. A person who has become aware of himself, through the questions he has been asked, is in a better position to predict and control his own behavior” (Skinner)

“Analyzing culture scientifically allows us not only to understand its effect,…