Psychoanalysis Quotes

“The concept of transference at once destroys faith in personal relations and explains why they are tragic: we cannot know each other. We must grope around for each other through a dense thicket of absent others. We cannot see each other plain. A horrible kind of predestination hovers over each new attachment we form.”
― Janet Malcolm, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession

“Insight isn’t superficial—it isn’t simply learning something mildly interesting about yourself. It is becoming yourself. It’s finding your way to the child in yourself, it is a profound recognition.”
― Janet Malcolm, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession