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“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 human ego must face the Dionysian reality, and therefore a great work of self-transformation lies ahead of it. For Nietzsche was right in saying that the Apollonian preserves, the Dionysian destroys, self-consciousness.”
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
“But I can't understand a Yahweh , or a God , who could be all-powerful and all knowing and would allow the Nazi death camps and schizophrenia .”
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“Having a talent is not enough; one also requires your permission for it--right, my friends?”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“Most of the 'pain' we experience is of a perceptual order, perception either of the urge of unsatisfied instincts or of something in the external world which may be painful in itself or may arouse painful anticipations in the psychic apparatus and is recognised by it as 'danger.”
― Beyond the Pleasure Principle
― Beyond the Pleasure Principle
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