7 Margaret Atwood Quotes on Psychology

Margaret Atwood quotes on psychology

54. We tend to think of Freud as a great innovator, but the truth is that he himself rested, like a ship on an iceberg, on a huge body of theory and knowledge which had accumulated before his time. Even the famous Unconscious had made its appearance at least seven decades earlier. As for such supposedly modern phenomena as multiple personalities, the vogue for them began in the first half of the nineteenth century; and the first case in which the perpetrator of a murder pleaded amnesia, and got off, was in the eighteen eighties.

62. Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.

70. If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

74. No one knows what causes an outer landscape to become an inner one.

76. Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for.

83. The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

84. Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.