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Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts

“Words can do unspeakable good and cause terrible wounds.”

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“... Do not let us despise the word. After all it is a powerfull instrument; it is the means by which we convey our feelings to one another,...

Wilhelm Reich: The Mass Psychology of Fascism - Quotes

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The Mass Psychology of Fascism ― in this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, which continues to ravage th...

It cannot go on like this; something is bound to happen.

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Letter from Sigmund Freud to Arnold Zweig: “It cannot go on like this; something is bound to happen. Whether the Nazis will come, or wheth...

The future is uncertain: either Austrian fascism or the swastika.

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On 20 February 1934, Sigmund Freud wrote to his son Ernst: “The future is uncertain: either Austrian fascism or the swastika. In the latte...

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

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“The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.” ― Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da V...

“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.”

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“Wenn man der unbestrittene Liebling der Mutter gewesen ist, so behält man fürs Leben jenes Eroberergefühl, jene Zuversicht des Erfolges, we...

“I may say at once that I am no connoisseur in art, but simply a layman.”

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“I may say at once that I am no connoisseur in art, but simply a layman. I have often observed that the subject-matter of works of art has a...

The Oedipus complex unfolded on October 15, 1897.

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It was, within a few days, the first anniversary of his father’s death (Jakob Freud died on October 23, 1896). Being entirely honest with...

Freud on The realm of imagination

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“The realm of imagination was seen to be a “reservation” made during the painful transition from the pleasure principle to the reality princ...

I owe my results to a new method of psychoanalysis, Josef Breuer's exploratory procedure

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“I owe my results to a new method of psychoanalysis, Josef Breuer's exploratory procedure; it is a little intricate, but irreplaceable, ...

we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill?

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“Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a na...

The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness.

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“The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is ...

“The times are gloomy. Fortunately it is not my job to brighten them.” ― Sigmund Freud

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  ― Letter from Sigmund Freud to Arnold Zweig, May 2, 1935

“I believe that it is wrong to designate the feeling of having experienced something before as an illusion.”

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“To the category of the wonderful and uncanny we may also add that strange feeling we perceive in certain moments and situations when it see...

Freud on Death and American flirtation

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“But this attitude of ours towards death has a powerful effect on our lives. Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest st...

But for Lacan all our discourse is in a sense a slip of the tongue:

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“If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at al...

“The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed”

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“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. ...

Enjoyment is always bound up with gratitude

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“Enjoyment is always bound up with gratitude; if this gratitude is deeply felt it includes the wish to return goodness received and is thus ...

This accusation reflects a radical misunderstanding of Freudian theory:

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“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’ ps...

“I would not have believed … that psychoanalysis could mean so much to someone else … ”

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“I would not have believed … that psychoanalysis could mean so much to someone else or that anyone would be able to read so much in my words...