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

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

It is a joy to be hidden and a disaster to not be found.

--Winnicott

Otto Kernberg has a paper called "Suicide Prevention for Psychoanalytic Institutes and Societies"

Loewald and the 'blood of recognition'...

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”

-Archbishop Desmond Tutu