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.
“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
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“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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