Selected Writings, Volume 1 Quotes

“Freud’s theory, too, belongs to the hegemony of the priests of this cult. Its conception is capitalist religious thought through and through. By virtue of a profound analogy, which has still to be illuminated, what has been repressed, the idea of sin, is capital itself, which pays interest on the hell of the unconscious.”
― Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913–1926

“God's transcendence is at an end. But he is not dead; he has been incorporated into
human existence.”
― Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913–1926