Friedrich Nietzsche’s perspectives on the unconscious by Martin Liebscher Shortly before his mental breakdown at the beginning of January 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in Ecce Homo (1888) that “out of my writings there speaks a psychologist who has not his equal, that is perhaps the first thing a good reader will notice.”1 Since then, posterity…
Henry Murray often said that all theory is autobiography. The Auntification of C. G. Jung HENRY MURRAY often said that all theory is autobiography. Andre Maurois observed that biography is sometimes disguised autobiography.1 I’d almost be willing to add a dictum of my own: “No psychobiography without autobiography.” It’s frustrating if not impossible to do…
Marion Woodman – Addiction to Perfection: Preface Preface Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rime: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of…
What is an Emotion? William James (1884) The physiologists who, during the past few years, have been so industriously exploring the functions of the brain, have limited their attempts at explanation to its cognitive and volitional performances. Dividing the brain into sensorial and motor centres, they have found their division to be exactly paralleled by…