Famous quotes containing the words dean rosen, richard dean, richard, dean and/or rosen:
“Psychobabble is ... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. Its an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.”
—Richard Dean Rosen (b. 1949)
“Its apparent that we cant proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the egos condition. Lets call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.”
—Richard Dean Rosen (b. 1949)
“If thats the worlds smartest man, God help us.”
—Lucille Feynman, mother of American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
“Confession, alas, is the new handshake.”
—Richard Dean Rosen (b. 1949)
“The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self- fulfillment and actualization, the more they are emphasized as if they could spring to life through an act of will alone.”
—Richard Dean Rosen (b. 1949)