Sublime

Freud declares that there is 'something innate underlying perversions', but 'it is something innate in everyone'. Children are not born pure and corrupted by the world. In fact, they are born perverse and checked by the world's civilising influences. Freud's theory of sexual development reverses a way of thinking about children that dates back to B

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.

Finally, the complex also includes a murderous rage on the part of the child toward the parent of the same sex. The child wants to kill the parent, but is more afraid that he will be killed by the parent. Because of the great fear, the rage is suppressed and comes out only in death wishes against the parent or as fear that the parent will die or be

in at least one of Freud’s envisionings of this, we are by inclination self-satisfying and self-satisfied creatures forced to acknowledge our dependence on others.

herein it seems to surpass the efficacy of direct suggestion, as practised at present by psychotherapists.

The undiscriminating man will project his anima (those particular, distinctive, feminine potentialities that are significant components of his unconscious mind) onto women around him. And, because the characteristics of his anima are significant to him, they carry a significant emotional charge.

C’est à Vienne que j’ai connu Sigmund Freud, ce grand esprit plein de rigueur, qui a approfondi et élargi comme nul autre notre connaissance de l’âme humaine, à l’époque où il passait encore pour un original têtu et difficile, qu’on détestait comme tel. Fanatique de la vérité, mais en même temps conscient des limites de toute vérité — il me dit un

People with parents who consistently let them down emotionally and who failed to provide what was needed rarely feel safe in their adult relationships.

‘The strangest characteristic of unconscious (repressed) processes,’ Freud writes in ‘Formulations on the Two Principles of Psychic Functioning’, ‘results from their total disregard for reality-testing; thought-reality is equated with external reality, the wish with its fulfilment’; ‘the pleasure-ego,’ he writes, ‘can do nothing but wish … the real