Fine Ancient Greek philosophers do psychoanalysis

“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.”

Democritus, circa 400 BC
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“Contemporary psychoanalysts have returned to the most simplistic form of egocentrism, which suggests a misunderstanding of the dependent status Freud later assigned to the ego.”

Jacques Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Its Teaching
Alex Webb, Hurry back to Daytona Beach, Florida

Barbie and Ken do psychoanalysis, with thanks to Mattel

Psychoanalysis at the movies

“I often wonder why people torment themselves as soon as they can.”

Bibi Andersson being Mia, to Max von Sydow being Antonius Block the medieval knight, in The Seventh Seal, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1957.

Fine writers do psychoanalysis

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten, can they?”

Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, 1992

“We have learnt from the psychoanalyses of individuals that their earliest impressions, received at a time when the child was scarcely yet capable of speaking, produce at some time or another effects of a compulsive character without themselves being consciously remembered.” SF

Fine artists do psychoanalysis

“Art is never chaste; art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.”

Pablo Picasso

Pictured is Picasso’s home studio at L’Atelier de La Californie, a Belle Époque mansion in the hills of Cannes on the Côte d'Azur, 1957

Psychoanalysis on the small screen

“Chill babe, we’re all bad in someone’s story.”

Samantha to Carrie, Sex and the City, 2004

“How am I supposed to relax in a world where ‘truffle’ can mean either chocolate or fungus?”

By Dan Piraro

Fine artists do psychoanalysis

“It takes a very long time to become young.”

Pablo Picasso to Jean Cocteau