Analysis Quotes

You know what they tell you to do when you’re assessing the value of your hand? If you’re defending – count the winners – but if you’re attacking count the losers.

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined – sifted.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or the other.[Der Analyse gegeben ist, die ja die krankhaften Reaktionen nicht unmöglich machen, sondern dem Ich des Kranken die Freiheit schaffen soll, sich so oder anders zu entscheiden.]

Analysis can be a very unappetizing affair, as much so as death.