Michael Kahn > Quotes

“the repetition compulsion, that strange, very common need to replay old traumatic situations or old traumatic relationships.”
― Michael Kahn, Basic Freud

“It is on the field [of transference] that the victory must be won-the victory whose expression is the permanent cure of the neurosis.”
― Michael Kahn, Basic Freud

“Freud identified guilt as the high price we pay for civilization.”
― Michael Kahn, Basic Freud

“Conscience is that authority taken inside.”
― Michael Kahn, Basic Freud

“shadow of the lost object falls across the ego.”
― Michael Kahn, Basic Freud

“Each of us views interpersonal interactions through the lens of our unconscious fantasies, through the lens of the idiosyncratic principles by which we have learned”
― Michael Kahn, Basic Freud

“transference provided him with his most powerful tool to effect the working through.”
― Michael Kahn, Basic Freud

“unconscious anger at the lost person can masquerade as guilt in any lost relationship.”
― Michael Kahn, Basic Freud

“An extremely important form of reaction formation is misperceiving a wish as a fear.”
― Michael Kahn, Basic Freud

“defense mechanisms were the cornerstone of psychoanalytic theory.”
― Michael Kahn, Basic Freud