Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

- Albert Ellis

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

- Chaim Potok

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

- Germaine Greer

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

- Harold Bloom

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

- Jacques Lacan

Freud was just a novelist.

- Peter Ackroyd

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.

- Siri Hustvedt