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I think, therefore I am
Cogito ergo sum
René Descartes
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“We will not actually get to the point when the gadget is not a symptom, because for the time being it is absolutely obvious that it is one. For sure, when you have a car, as a fake woman, you absolutely insist that it is a phallus, but that has nothing to do with the phallus ...
“A relationship is introduced (by object relations theorists) between subject and object that is not only direct and seamless but which literally equates them. It was this relationship that provided the pretext for the foregrounding of the object as such. This relationship of ...
Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Sándor Ferenczi and Ms Liberty in New York Harbor:
“We are making progress with psychoanalysis, my dear Jung. The Americans don’t yet realise that we’re bringing them the plague.”
SS George Washington steamship liner, 1909
“One feature of the popular view of the sexual drive is that it is absent in childhood and only awakens in the period of life described as puberty.
This, however, is not merely a simple error but one that has had grave consequences, for it is mainly to this idea that owe our ...
Sigmund Freud $12 stamp, Uruguay, commemorating 100 years of psychoanalysis
“The tension between the harsh super-ego and the ego that is subjected to it, is called by us the sense of guilt; it expresses itself as a need for punishment. Civilisation, therefore, obtains mastery over the individual’s dangerous desire for aggression by weakening ...
“The incidence of addiction is higher than ever, and drugs and drug use are an increasingly prevalent part of our culture. Yet we seem to lack the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people and how people become addicted to drugs. This is ...
“Anxiety is the trace of our body’s contribution to civilisation’s discontent, this body which becomes the ‘support/surface’ for what is ‘symptomatic’ in our civilisation, in our culture.”
Daniel Roy, NLS President, Argument for the NLS Congress: https://t.co/kW5qp3sRS6