[HPforGrownups] Re: Ebony's S.O.S.

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 2464


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From: "Ebony Elizabeth" <ebonyink at hotmail.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 3:20 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Ebony's S.O.S.



> >
> > if you know Freud, you
> know sex is *everything*--"the rest is just details".

If you "know" Freud - Oh, if only it were that simple! - as was once said of
Mozart, Freud is too easy for beginners, and too complicated for
professionals.  Hans Zinnser once noted that "Freud's high explosives have
been reworked into firecrackers for the simple-minded to burn their
fingers."

    - CMC

"Over and over again when psychoanalysis has regarded something happening in
the mind as an expression of the sexual instincts, indignant protests have
been raised to the effect that other instincts and other interests exist in
mental life beside the sexual, that one should not derive everything from
sexuality, and so on.  Well, it is a real pleasure for once to be in
agreement with one's opponents. Psycho-analysis has never forgotten that
non-sexual instincts also exist; it has built up a sharp distinction between
sexual instincts and ego-instincts; and in the face of all opposition it has
insisted, not that they arise from sexuality, but that the neuroses owe
their origin to a conflict between ego and sexuality........"

    - Freud, General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis, Chapter 22