Sublime

Freud set out to develop a medical specialism but succeeded in producing a complex system of thought, a new way of understanding the mind, relationships, history and culture.

Indeed, it is only after Freud that depictions of human absurdity have become commonplace.

Denn die Anomie ist zwiefach. Da einer sich nicht endgültig gibt, besitzt er auch nichts endgültig. Die Ungewißheit über die Zukunft, die mit seiner eigenen Entschlußlosigkeit verbunden ist, verurteilt ihn zu einer nicht endenden Geschäftigkeit. Das alles zusammen schafft einen Zustand von Unruhe, Erregung und Unzufriedenheit, durch den die Möglich

All of these have roots in a sense of not having mattered enough to anyone over long childhood years.

What counts, though, isn’t that the therapist has developed an accurate diagnosis but that the patient is allowed to recognize it for themselves, by a process of carefully designed prompts, in a way that they can absorb without fear, in their own time. That is why therapists tend to proceed via gentle questions—“I wonder how it felt when Mom went a

a discomfort with uncertainty that impels a compulsion to explain or account for every mystery under the sun.

By their questions and their attention, their careful probing and investigative stealth, the therapist tries – harder than anyone may yet have done – to discover how our presenting problem might be related to the rest of our existence and, in particular, to the turmoils of childhood. Over many sessions, a succession of small discoveries contributes