Monday, January 09, 2006

File 1.39 (update)

Uebelkeit nach zuviel Psychologie. Wenn einer gute Beine hat und an die Psychologie herangelassen wird, kann er in kurzer Zeit und in beliebigem Zickzack Strecken zuruecklegen, wie auf keinem andern Feld. Da gehen einem die Augen ueber.
Kafka, Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente I, 423.

Nausea after too much psychology. If one has strong legs and is let near psychology, one may in little time, and in random zigzag, traverse distances like in no other field. One can hardly believe one's eyes at it.
Kafka, Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente I, 423.

Now that depth-psychology, with the help of films, soap operas and Horney, has delved into the deepest recesses, people's last possibility of experiencing themselves has been cut off by organized culture.
T.W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 65.