{"quotes":[{"text":"One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature or civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed. And in fact it is not difficult to indicate those defects. While mankind has made continual advances in its control over nature and may expect to make still greater ones, it is not possible to establish with certainty that a similar advance has been made in the management of human affairs; and probably at all periods, just as now once again, many people have asked themselves whether what little civilization has thus acquired is indeed worth defending at all. One would think that a re-ordering of human relations should be possible, which would remove the sources of dissatisfaction with civilization by renouncing coercion and the suppression of the instincts, so that, undisturbed by internal discord, men might devote themselves to the acquisition of wealth and its enjoyment. That would be a golden age, but it is questionable if such a state of affairs can be realized. It seems rather that every civilization must be built upon coercion and renunciation of instinct; it does not even seem certain that if coercion were to cease the majority of human beings would be prepared to undertake to perform the work necessary for acquiring new wealth. One has, I think, to reckon with the fact that there are present in all men destructive, and therefore anti-social and anti-cultural, trends and that in a great number of people these are strong enough to determine their behavior in human society.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["1928","civilization","id","instinct","psychoanalysis","superego","will-to-power"],"id":39414,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.","author":"Karen Horney","tags":["life-lessons","psychoanalysis"],"id":40204,"author_id":"Karen+Horney"},{"text":"‎'...θα πρέπει να αντιληφθείς, αγαπητή Τερέζα, ότι τα αντικείμενα δεν έχουν, κατά την άποψη μας, άλλη αξία από εκείνη που τους δίνει η φαντασία μας.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["fetishism","philosophy","psychoanalysis","psychology"],"id":45693,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"},{"text":"Pyschoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we're going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we're creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.","author":"Stephen Grosz","tags":["future","living-in-the-present","psychoanalysis","pyschology"],"id":59050,"author_id":"Stephen+Grosz"},{"text":"Young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mother, are not only temporarily disturbed by such deprivation, but may in some cases suffer long-term effects which persistBowlby, J., Ainsworth, M., Boston, M., and Rosenbluth, D. (1956). The effects of mother-child separation: A follow-up study. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 29, 211-249.","author":"John Bowlby","tags":["attachment","child-neglect","childhood-neglect","mother","neglect","parenting","psychoanalysis","psychology","separation"],"id":61028,"author_id":"John+Bowlby"},{"text":"The economist may attempt to ignore psychology, but it is sheer impossibility for him to ignore human nature … If the economist borrows his conception of man from the psychologist his constructive work may have some chance of remaining purely economic in character. But if he does not, he will not thereby avoid psychology. Rather, he will force himself to make his own, and it will be bad psychology.","author":"John Maurice Clark","tags":["economics","human-nature-wisdom","psychoanalysis","psychology","science"],"id":73962,"author_id":"John+Maurice+Clark"},{"text":"When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.","author":"William Gibson","tags":["design","engineering","psychoanalysis","psychology"],"id":75638,"author_id":"William+Gibson"},{"text":"And why do you imagine that we bring people to this place?’ ‘To make them confess.’ ‘No, that is not the reason. Try again.’ ‘To punish them.’ ‘No!’ exclaimed O’Brien. His voice had changed extraordinarily, and his face had suddenly become both stern and animated. ‘No! Not merely to extract your confession, not to punish you. Shall I tell you why we have brought you here? To cure you! To make you sane! Will you understand, Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands uncured? We are not interested in those stupid crimes that you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that?","author":"George Orwell","tags":["philosophy","politics","psychoanalysis"],"id":75943,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","love","lovers","psychiatry","psychoanalysis","psychology","romance"],"id":80745,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.","author":"Clarice Lispector","tags":["common","experience","grace","human","lucidity","psychoanalysis","real","reality","recognition","stream-of-consciousness"],"id":87482,"author_id":"Clarice+Lispector"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":72,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}