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…
Brief Reflections: On Opposites
Opposites are always closer to each other than either is to the mid-point between them.
Marcus Bowman PhD 