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Some people should never write, and some never travel — and from the torturous experience of trying to engage in whatever this thing aspires to be whilst trying to encompass both — never write about traveling …

“[Wilhelm] Reich returned to Vienna where the Technical Seminars were floundering. Under the chairmanship of Eduard Hitschmann, the seminars lacked focus. Surviving minutes show discussions that veered from sexual dysfunction to Rank’s birth anxiety to ways of structuring the Ambulatorium. After two years, Hitschmann handed them to Hermann Nunberg, who gave up after only one semester.” LOL

“[Freud warned] unanalysed countertransferences could lead to therapeutic failure and encourage [analysts] to chase after that pied piper of carnality, Otto Gross.” LOL

“As Gide says in THE COUNTERFEITERS, there is nothing more profound than the superficial, because there isn’t anything profound.” (p. 153)

“There’s a horrendous discovery here, that of the flesh one never sees, the foundation of things, the other side of the head, of the face … Spectre of anxiety, identification of anxiety, the final revelation of YOU ARE THIS …” (Irma’s dream, p.154)