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he prescribed morphine for the cough
Will a dream once dreamed change to accommodate changes in the dreamer’s life?
Helmholtzian theory! Once the excess cerebral electrical charge responsible for symptoms is discharged through emotional catharsis, then the symptoms behave properly and promptly vanish!
hemicrania.
What is this?
the twelve cranial nerves—the sense of smell, vision, eye movements, hearing, facial and tongue movement and sensation, swallowing, balance, speech.
“The first is: Will I go blind? The second: Will I have these attacks forever? And finally, the most difficult question: Do I have a progressive brain disease which will kill me young like my father, drive me into paralysis or, worse, into madness or dementia?”
Perhaps—only perhaps—there is a right by which we can take a man’s life. But there is no right by which we can take a man’s death.
I’ve always felt the final reward of the dead is to die no more!”
There was something cleansing about discourse in the realm of pure ideas.
“The longitudinal method means following individual patients for years and discovering that their attacks lessen as they grow older, does it not?”
“The cross-sectional method is a single observation at one point in time—in this case, that the older patients in the sample show fewer migraine attacks than younger ones.”
“Lying to himself, Sig? How do you lie to yourself? Who is the liar? Who is being lied to?”
I am told Hegel lamented on his deathbed that he had only one student who understood him, and even that one student misunderstood him! I am unable to claim even one misunderstanding student.”
When I heard Carmen for the first time, every nerve cell in my brain fired at once: my entire nervous system was ablaze.
comprehensive and comprehensible.
I have not the energy to make a copy of this letter, dear friend. Please return it to me. Yours, F.N.
those who wish for peace of soul and happiness must believe and embrace faith, while those who wish to pursue the truth must forsake peace of mind and devote their life to inquiry.
If you kill God, you must also leave the shelter of the temple.”
“Gloomy? Ask yourself, Doctor Breuer, why are all the great philosophers gloomy?
‘One must have chaos and frenzy within oneself to give birth to a dancing star.’
“Don’t you see, Josef, that the problem is not that you feel discomfort? What importance is tension or pressure in your chest? Who ever promised you comfort? So you sleep poorly! So? Who ever promised you good sleep? No, the problem is not discomfort. The problem is that you have discomfort about the wrong thing!”
Not yet does he understand that there is a my way and a your way, but that there is no “the” way.
He was “the lad of infinite promise”—as are we all—but never understood the nature of his promise. He never understood that his duty was to perfect nature, to overcome himself, his culture, family, lust, his brutish animal nature, to become who he was, what he was. He never grew, he never shed his first skin: he mistook the promise to be the acquisition of material and professional objectives.
