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The Freud Wars, Wilson and Zarate (2002) https://t.co/mte9SJJg9Q
"Freud is a genius, not of science but of propaganda, not of rigorous prood but of persuasion, not of the design of experiments, but of literary arts. His place is not with Copernicus and Darwin but with Hans Christian Anderson and The Brothers Grimm, tellers of tales."
Wittgenstein: "Freud very commonly gives whar we might call a sexual interpretation. But it is interesting that among all the reports of dreams which he gives, there is not a single example of a straightforward sexual dream. Yet these are as common as rain."
Freud: "If someone's need for love is not entirely satisfied by reality, he is bound to approach every new person whom he meets with libidinal anticipatory ideas." I've known so many boys and men like this. I was like this as a teenager. The subconscious is magnetized by culture
"We utilize each other as living representations of characters &scenarios originating in our unconscious phantasized world. We modulate anxiety and frustration by building our own private theatre & casting friends, lovers, colleagues & family in the roles we want them to play."
Fun fact: the birth of psychoanalysis was contemporaneous with the development of Daimler's petrol-driven motor-car. The British Medical Journal carried an editorial, "The Therapeutic Possibilities of Automobilism". I think late night drives have validated that idea...
Plato: "In sleep the wild beast in us, full-fed with meat or drink, becomes rampant &shakes off sleep to go in quest of what will gratify its own instincts. In phantasy it will not shrink from intercourse w/ a mother, man, God, or brute, from any forbidden food or deed of blood."