quote of the day

[shum_listvi]

Nietzsche on the unconscious: One of his most famous statements is "My memory says I did it. My pride says I could not have done that. In the end, my memory yields

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[lapsedmodernist]

The first was the Copernican Revolution.

[shum_listvi]

Great. Thanks. I didn't hope anybody would answer. Where do you know it from?

[lapsedmodernist]

you know, I don't remember. I think I first came across it in some review article on "Darwin's Dangerous Idea." If not, then probably in my class on psychological anthropology. I think it's a pretty famous passage in Freud's Lectures, where he says the first blow was when humankind learned that Earth was not the center of the universe, then Darwin showing man's descent from the animals, then as the third blow he named psychoanalysis and himself.

[shum_listvi]

That's funny. About him being the third blow. Will there be a fourth?

[lapsedmodernist]

maybe the global financial crisis that is in progress? It's a necessary one, of course. As were all the others!