Sublime

Freud is proposing – though he would never put it like this – that in Musil’s language, the greatest and most important thing is the unconscious, the greatest and most important thing is that we are largely unconscious of ourselves; that the only question, as the French philosopher Michel Serres puts it, is ‘What is it you don’t want to know about

C’est à Vienne que j’ai connu Sigmund Freud, ce grand esprit plein de rigueur, qui a approfondi et élargi comme nul autre notre connaissance de l’âme humaine, à l’époque où il passait encore pour un original têtu et difficile, qu’on détestait comme tel. Fanatique de la vérité, mais en même temps conscient des limites de toute vérité — il me dit un

A child who has painful experiences early in life will either feel cut off from those around him or will attempt to fuse with them, not knowing where he leaves off and others begin. This lack

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.

Sigmund Freud himself wrote about how common it is for deficiencies, big and small, at a young age to birth toxic, turbulent attitudes in adulthood. Because we weren’t born rich enough, pretty enough, naturally gifted enough, because we weren’t appreciated like other children in the classroom, or because we had to wear glasses or got sick a lot or

Quando instruo um paciente a deixar toda reflexão e me dizer tudo o que lhe passar pela mente, me atenho ao pressuposto de que ele não consegue abrir mão das representações com meta do tratamento e me vejo autorizado a inferir que as coisas aparentemente mais inocentes e arbitrárias que ele me conta estão relacionadas à sua doença.