Mortal Secrets
But man finds a substitute for this action in speech through which help the affect can well-nigh be ab-reacted
Sigmund Freud • Studies in Hysteria
the problem was that Freud’s perspective, and the social theory inspired by it, didn’t recognize that culture is never a whole. Rather, culture is always a patchwork of intuitions and practices.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
This was well-known to the founding giants of psychology like Freud, Jung, and Lacan. Freud called it “psychic masochism,” Jung recognized it as “the Shadow,” and Lacan called it jouissance—pleasure that's so intense we repress it. All
Carolyn Elliott • Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power (A method for getting what you want by getting off on what you don't)
If dreams are the royal road to the unconscious mind as proposed by Freud,[2] then what are the stories that we write?