KARL KRAUS ON PSYCHOANALYSIS

Psychoanalysis is the disease it purports to cure.

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lascivious rationalists who reduce everything in the world to sexual causes, with the exception of their occupation.

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor who just wanted to see what it was like in there.

An analyst turns a man to dust.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the fathers as well.

One cleans someone else’s threshold of consciousness only if one’s own home is dirty.

Most people are sick. But only few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

They have the press, they have the stock exchange, and now they have the subconscious!

They pick our dreams as though they were our pockets.