An excerpt from God Is Unconscious | They do not realize we are bringing them the plague

I'll be posting a few excerpts for these last few weeks leading up to my book's release. This is the first:

“The voice of intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.” - Freud

“I did not write them in order for people to understand them, I wrote them in order for people to read them. Which is not even remotely the same thing . . . People don’t understand anything, that is perfectly true, for a while, but the writings do something to them.” - Lacan

“Sailing into New York Harbor, Sigmund Freud stood on the deck with Carl Jung and gazed out at the statue illuminating the world. Their arrival was a much-anticipated event for American psychologists so very curious of what this new theory of the psyche could expose. Whether out of hubris or prescience—and are they not often one and the same?—Freud turned to his disciple and whispered, ‘They don’t realize we’re bringing them the plague.’”