"Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits"

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Source : Frederick C. Crews, Frederick Crews (1988). “Skeptical Engagements”, Oxford University Press, USA

Frederick Crews

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“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.”
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

Source : Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)
“Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.”
“First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.”
“Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.”
“He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.”
“Hyun Joong hyung listens to music so loud that the neighbors are telling us to move out.”
“I've told Michael Jackson jokes. If you got really technical, you could say those are jokes about child molestation. You could, if you got technical. A lot of this is just selective outrage because honestly, the audience are the ones that tell us that something shouldn't be spoken. The audience lets us know. And I've never, in my almost 30 years of being a comedian, seen a comedian continue to tell a joke that the audience doesn't respond to. I've never seen it.”

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