“We are always reading for pleasure. ..It is pleasure that we are always seeking, and never more so than when the nature of that pleasure is obscure” – ADAM PHILLIPS http://ift.tt/1efazeh
sigmund freud
“The ‘Oedipus complex’ is a phase of becoming social, of learning to desire in realistic ways. Yet, everyday use of the term makes it sound as if Freud means that someone has complexes. This is a misappropriation of Freud’s term, a sloppy merging of two terms into one” – ANDRE VANTINO http://ift.tt/1A4FzHy
“The melancholic incessantly verbalises self-reproach. ..Freud notes a ‘trait of insistent communicativeness which finds satisfaction in self-exposure’” – Death-and-Desire-in-Hegel-Heidegger-and-Deleuze http://ift.tt/1cxiguU
“why live if you can be buried for 10 dollars?” – FREUD, on the perverse logic of American capitalism. He added that having encountered this logic makes him a “too pessimistic” person http://ift.tt/1EdGgup
“Freud ..dozed off, and then awakened as the cigar fell.. ..They both joked about it.” – PAUL ROAZEN, on HELENE DEUTSCH http://ift.tt/1Lqet2q
“Mourning has..to detach the survivor’s memories + hopes from the dead. [Then] the pain grows less.” – Sigmund Freud http://ift.tt/1xhFysN
