Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one’s dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
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