Mortal Secrets
The language of the Red Book is in my view Jung’s most insightful, precisely because it is not conceptual.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
Freud, probably disingenuously, claimed until late in his life never to have read either of these philosophers. Schopenhauer’s pessimism and Nietzsche’s optimism were both well acquainted with the automatic stirrings of the mind, and Freud’s concept of the ‘Id’ (that instinctive self in which our primal processes are manifest) seems to be closely r
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Darnley said that Sigmund Freud had visited in 1899 and had somehow forgotten Signorelli’s name. This he’d called the mechanism of repression and it became fundamental in Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams.
Sarah Winman • Still Life: The instant Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick
GORDIAN KNOTS OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS
Shall we deny that Gordian knots of the subconscious exist as well? Those sudden unlooked-for eruptions of the subconscious mind, those unexpected shocking, jarring, or delightfully naughty associations: images of lopping off the feet of your boss, of hurling your kid into a pond, of tongue-to-tongue delight with y... See more
Shall we deny that Gordian knots of the subconscious exist as well? Those sudden unlooked-for eruptions of the subconscious mind, those unexpected shocking, jarring, or delightfully naughty associations: images of lopping off the feet of your boss, of hurling your kid into a pond, of tongue-to-tongue delight with y... See more