Which child would not have reason to weep over its parents? - Thus Spake Zarathustra, part I, Of child and marriage.
Goethe and Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis as an intellectual discipline is unthinkable without the innovative precedents set by the great German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832). Freud quotes Goethe throughout his writing probably more than he does any other predecessor. Freud tells us in his Autobiography (1925) that it was the inspiration of listening to a reading of…
Freud quotes: Other People
The pain that arises from our relations with other people we feel perhaps more keenly than that from any other source. We are prone to see it as a relatively superfluous addition to them, although it is no less fatally inescapable than the pain from other origins. - Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (Das Unbehagen…
Marcus Bowman PhD 