Sublime

Freud’s consulting room provided a confidential place for a person to talk, frankly and probably for the first time, about sex and anguish, to be understood and find healing. This in itself is a leap forward in the story of happiness, and perhaps for the first time in history a positive development that relates specifically to those who find themse

For it was really shown that these memories correspond to traumas which were not sufficiently 'ab-reacted,' and on closer investigation of the reasons for this hindrance, we can find at least two series of determinants through which the reaction to the trauma was omitted.

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 capacity for tolerating frustration thus enables the psyche to develop thought as a means by which the frustration that is tolerated is itself made more tolerable.

Pour Freud, le premier à avoir conceptualisé leur existence, le « ça », la partie instinctive du psychisme (de l’allemand es, représentant la nature dans toute sa puissance et son exotisme, en notre sein), le « surmoi » (la représentation intériorisée parfois oppressive de l’ordre social), et l’« ego » (le « moi », la personnalité propre, coincée e

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

A normal person is in this way capable of dissipating the accompanying affect by means of association.

Melding, as much so-called Attachment Theory does, Darwin and Freud – the need to survive through dependent relationships made compatible with the need to be sensually gratified