3 John Leonard Quotes on Psychology

John Leonard quotes on psychology

5. 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.

11. 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.

22. One advantage of remorse is that it sets the stage for consolation.