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Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst QUOTES

Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst QUOTES

1 " Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where Freud lived for virtually his entire life, was the eye of the storm of this modernism; and was the birthplace of the linguistic philosophy that came to dominate the twentieth century. "

― Adam Phillips , Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst

2 " The first psychoanalytic patients were people who, by definition, did not fit in, people speaking the wrong language, a language of bizarre physical symptoms, a language very unlike the language of science, and for which science suggested itself as the great explainer. These people were suffering, in Freud's view...from the ordeals of intimacy. "

― Adam Phillips , Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst