Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here.... The cats particularly. They seem to know. You c...an fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, t...he real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas ... a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in explo...ring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable whe...n you become accustomed to living at others' expense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred... in the psychic landscape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom..., justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can be no sexual love without lust; but, on the other hand, until the currents of lust in the organism have been irradiated ...as to affect other parts of the psychic organism--at the least the affections and the social feelings--it is not yet sexual love. Lust, the specific sexual impulse, is indeed the primary and essential element in this synthesis, for it alone is adequate to the end of reproduction, not only in animals but in men. But it is not until lust is expanded and irradiated that it develops into the exquisite and enthralling flower of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my own view, there are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doi...ng things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself. As Picasso once remarked, "I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as the body reacts in a purposeful way to wounds or infections or an abnormal way of living, so the psychic functions react t...o unnatural or injurious disturbances with appropriate means of defence. One of these purposeful reactions is the dream, in which the unconscious material constellated round a given conscious position is presented to the conscious mind in symbolic form. In this unconscious material are all those associations which have remained in the unconscious because they were only weakly emphasized but which nevertheless have sufficient energy to make themselves felt during sleep. Naturally the purposeful character of the dream-content cannot be directly seen from the manifest dream-content; it requires an analysis of this manifest content to reach the actual compensatory factors of the latent dream-content. But most physical defensive reactions are of the same scarcely recognizable and, so to speak, indirect nature, and their purposeful character also has only been recognized through deep investigation and exact observation. I might recall, for instance, the meaning of fever and the processes of suppuration in an infected wound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »