Sigismund Schlomo Freud with his mother Amalia Malka Nathansohn Freud.
This photograph was taken in 1872 when he was 16-years-old and she was 36. Seven younger siblings have been born, including Julius who lived only six months. Sigmund abbreviated his given name and dropped ...
to know yourself and so on and so on. And secondly that the aim of psychoanalysis is to ease or diminish your suffering. No. The point is not to ease your suffering, the point is to move out of these categories of ‘do I suffer?’ ‘do I have pleasure?’, ‘am I enjoying life?’” SZ
“In order to really use psychoanalysis today, in order to understand ideological phenomena, one has to get rid of many, many stupid clichés about psychoanalysis. One is that psychoanalysis is a form of self-knowledge; that it’s a radical version of the ancient Greek bullshit ...
“Indeed, Freud teaches us – and I will have to make this a signed frontispiece – about the distance, the gap even, that exists between the structuring of desire and the structuring of needs. The entire experience instituted and defined by Freud shows, at every turn ...
“It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.”
Sigmund Freud, Civi and Its Discos
In the 90s, near Halbe, south of Berlin, a box containing several hundred documents relating to personnel from the 32. SS Volunteer Grenadier Division was found. The contents were sold.
A similar box containing paperwork was found nearby in the 60s, but was seized by the Stasi.
Fine writers do psychoanalysis
“No need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life. That’s the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself whereas life alone is enough.”
Samuel Beckett, Stories and Texts for Nothing, 1955
Physics Photo Of The Day:
Last photo of Einstein's desk taken just hours after he passed away on April 18th, 1955.
Photo taken by Ralph Morse from Life Magazine.