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From the London Review dated 8 January 2004

I must be mad

  • Wild Analysis by Sigmund Freud, edited by Adam Phillips, translated by Alan Bance

“To be moved by Desdemona’s death we must in one way believe in it totally, while knowing that it would be absurd to leap onto the stage and stop Othello suffocating her. The child who knows that Father Christmas is his father but does not allow this knowledge to spoil his belief in Father Christmas does the same thing as an adult at a play or a patient in psychoanalysis. The complication for the patient in analysis, however, is that he himself is acting in the play; and his difficulty is that he is both Bottom and the ass.” [ read more . . . ]

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