Sublime

Neurosis and Human Growth de Karen Horney est le livre que j’ai le plus abondamment annoté pendant mes années de résidence. Sullivan avait beaucoup de choses à enseigner, malheureusement c’était un écrivain si exécrable que ses idées n’ont pas eu l’impact qu’elles méritaient. Ses travaux m’ont néanmoins aidé à comprendre que la plupart de nos patie

Put most simply, he borrowed my brain. We do this for one another all the time. Current research clearly indicates that we are not walled-in, freestanding individuals. Our human brains—in fact, most mammals’ brains—are built for co-regulation.

Actually a position is primarily manifested by the mental attitude to which it gives rise, and it is with this attitude that the individual undertakes the transactions which constitute his role.

Freud (1927), the father of psychology, divided the psyche into three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego. He saw the id as our primal, animal nature; the superego as the judgment system that society has instilled within us; and the ego as our representative to the outside world that struggles to maintain a balance between the other two powerf