The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis: Volume II by Bonomi Carlo;

Author:Bonomi, Carlo;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Part III

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Mute correspondence

I. Catabasis

We may safely assume that no generation is able to conceal any of its more important mental processes from its successor. For psycho-analysis has shown us that everyone possesses in his unconscious mental activity an apparatus which enables him to interpret other people’s reactions, that is, to undo the distortions which other people have imposed on the expression of their feelings. An unconscious understanding such as this of all the customs, ceremonies and dogmas left behind by the original relation to the father may have made it possible for later generations to take over their heritage of emotion.

Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo (1913a, p. 159)

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