Quote of the day
"I will pass over the details which showed how entirely correct all of this was..."
- Sigmund Freud, in "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" (aka. the case study of Dora)
The pop culture view of Freud tends to be more than a little dichotimized. These days it seems to swing more towards sex crazed lunatic than god of the unconscious. While reading his case studies is utterly fascinating, and I think it is premature and naive to throw out the immensely valuable baby (e.g., defense mechanisms) with the stale bathwater (e.g., penis envy), I had to giggle when reading this, as quotes like this make it clear where that cigar puffing narcissistic stereotype came from!
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Nothing like a bit of swaggering arrogance to raise a smile... :o)
Ha! Talk about a cop out!
Ah, such confidence, such certainty - such a massive ego!
I don't think it's all that surprising that modern psychology came about thanks to the work of a complete oddball like Freud.
His ego ain't that big...
lol. can i use that quote at my defense at the end of the month?
It's fun using lines like this at work. Mind you, some of the people I deal with can't really ever appreciate something like that, but at I least I get a laugh out of it. :)
Ant- I will I could pull it off. I think you need a European accent to do it properly!
Airam- Yet he gets away with it...
Beth- If anyone knows about egos, it would be him!
Dorky Dad- I'm not too sure what you are implying, sir!
Ultra- As compared to what?
Zelda- Ha! That would be bloody brilliant! Even better if you had an excuse to tie your material back to Freud!
Indy J- You are officially my hero if you can work Freud into your job, in particular!
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