"If you have a book inside you, let it out."
-- Franz Wisner
"Get it out, produce it, make something of it -- outside you; that is, give it an existence independently of you."
-- Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 to September 23, 1939)
Such was Freud's advice to Joan Riviere, one of his English translators, and at one time his patient. He was referring to a psychoanalytic explanation which she had shared with him. In saying this, Riviere felt he was referring to his own approach to thinking, to put it on paper or, again in his words, to "get it out of your system."
Freud certainly got much out of his system, in more senses than one, since it fairly can be claimed by supporters and critics alike, that much of what he "discovered" came from his attempts to understand himself.
I hope this answers people's question: "What is your motivation in writing a blog?"
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People from Tennessee ask the stupidest questions!
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