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“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”
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“Involuted Eros and involuted aggression constitute the “autonomous self” or what passes for individuality in the human species.”
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
“We can begin, I think, to make sense of these paradoxes if we think of the Oedipal project as the causa sui (father-of-oneself) project, and therefore in essence a revolt against death generally, and specifically against the biological principle separating mother and child.”
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
“The reaction to these claims of impulse and these threats of danger, a reaction in which the real activity of the psychic apparatus is manifested, may be guided correctly by the pleasure-principle or by the reality-principle which modifies this.”
― Beyond the Pleasure Principle
― Beyond the Pleasure Principle
“Consequently not any self-control or self-limitation for the sake of specific ends, but rather a carefree letting go of one-self.… Not caution but rather a wise blindness.… Not working to acquire silent, slowly increasing possessions, but rather a continuous squandering of all shifting values.… This way of being has something naïve and instinctive about it and resembles that period of the unconscious best characterized by a joyous confidence: namely the period of childhood.”
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
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