Sublime

The fact that Freud's structural model of the mind provides psychological fuel for narratives as different as The Iliad and Forbidden Planet strongly suggests that it captures essences, core dispositions, deep truths. And it continues to be relevant in an ever-changing, modern context.

Never answer a suspect’s questions, Bill used to say. They answer yours.

I’m not making this up—though Freud, I’m afraid, was. It remains for me a cautionary tale of an explanatory system run amok. Freud was so sure of what he was looking for that he began to see it anywhere and everywhere.

watching bored teenage jerk-offs hack apart someone you used to love. Even if she was dead. He wasn’t without empathy, but he was still young, and the pain of other people embarrassed him.