The most intimate expression of subjectivity needs to find an echo in another in order to receive its meaning. —Andre Green
Just because people ask you for something doesn't mean that's what they really want you to give them. —Lacan
May I be alive when I die. —Winnicott
Rather than the common expression, “it is what it is,” psychoanalysis is predicated on the premise that “it is more than it seems to be.” --Francisco J. González
Language without affect is a dead language: and affect without language is uncommunicable. Language is situated between the cry and the silence. --André Green
My thesis is that the analyst's emotional response to their patient within the analytic situation represents one of the most important tools of their work. The analyst's countertransference is an instrument of research into the patient's unconscious. --Paula Heimann, 1950
A massive, passionate thank you to analysands everywhere, without whom psychoanalysis would never have been discovered or continue to evolve.
Unless patients can feel that they have reached their analysts, moved them, changed them, discomfited them, angered them, hurt them, healed them, known them in some profound way, they themselves may not be able to benefit from their analyses. --Lew Aron