Kindle Notes & Highlights
“I have known that I am no genius.… I am not even very talented; my whole capacity for work probably stems from my traits of character and from the absence of outstanding intellectual weaknesses.”
A tendency to braggadocio, it seems, was there from the beginning.
self-conception as the founder of an anti-Christian science that could penetrate forbidden realms.
follows that his writings were typically influenced by cocaine.
Those writings, moreover, included the texts containing his first articulation of psychoanalytic theory.
“acquired a considerable quantity of cocaine, after which I immediately became a different man.”
“Freud’s sexual constitution,” admitted Ernest Jones, “was not exclusively masculine.”
Sigismund’s first infatuation, we recall, had been with his dashing schoolmate Heinrich Braun.
the most addictive drug yet produced by the human race.
The net effect of Freud’s counsel, then, had been to turn Fleischl into a double addict.
