September 2007
7 posts
“At its beginning psycho-analytic treatment was inexorable and exhausting. The...”
– Sigmund Freud, “The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy” (1910)
“The first thing the introduction of the notion [of deferred action] does is to...”
– Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, The Language of Psycho-Analysis. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. (W. W. Norton, 1973)
“Freud’s authority with Anna was absolute and he had established it early...”
– Mark Edmundson, The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days (Bloomsbury, 2007)
“Why do we hurt our parents the way we do? There’s no way to make sense of...”
– Brock Clarke, An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England (Sept 2007)
“I am ten years older than you and my powers of production are at an end. All...”
– “A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis [An Open Letter to Romain Rolland on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday]” (1936)
“It must be that a sense of guilt was attached to the satisfaction in having gone...”
– Sigmund Freud, “A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis [An Open Letter to Romain Rolland on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday]” (1936)
“When I was seven or eight years old there was another domestic scene, which I...”
– Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900 [1899])