John Leonard Quotes on Psychology
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Run from the Furies, and they find you, as if fear were a homing device, as if literature itself, on contemplating the abyss, were an invitation to jump into it, while Wagner whistles.
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Maybe the unconscious is overrated... What if your unconscious is full of false consciousness or bad faith? What if it's more like a trash compactor than a dreamcatcher? What if it's a diseased hump, a vampire bat, an alien abductor? Somewhere in Pieces and Pontifications, somebody asked him: 'Why can't the unconscious be as error-prone as the conscious?' It was a Freudian question he never answered.
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One advantage of remorse is that it sets the stage for consolation.