Home » Quote » Anaïs Nin » „The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.“ „The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.“ — Anaïs Nin Related quotes „There comes a time that the drum major instinct can become destructive.“ — Jr. „This is not only dishonest; it also carries a severe penalty with it. If you disregard people's motives, it becomes much harder to foresee their actions.“ — George Orwell „The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.“ — Sigmund Freud „Is it possible to become ecstatic amid destruction, rejuvenate oneself through cruelty?“ — Arthur Rimbaud „Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.“ — Emil M. Cioran „We obtain our concept of the unconscious, therefore, from the theory of repression … We see, however that we have two kinds of unconscious — that which is latent but capable of becoming conscious, and that which is repressed and not capable of becoming conscious in the ordinary way.“ — Sigmund Freud „For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.“ — Carl Sagan