Another rule to good storytelling is that no one wants a half-remembered tragedy. You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed.
“the point is not to idealize unconscious-instinctual life – to celebrate the “demonic” and ignore its dark side. It is rather to recognize that it constitutes a repository of material that is essential for human flourishing.”
― Freud: An Intellectual Biography
― Freud: An Intellectual Biography
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