Monday 13 March 2017

Quotes 2017 #72

"What is psychoanalysis if it is not an attempt to derive and give authority to a verbal construct of the past? The past is to be re-called by present discourse, Orpheus walking to the light but with his eyes resolutely turned back. Free association and the provocative echo of the analyst are designed to make recollection or, more accurately, collection, spontaneous as well as significant. But whatever the methodology, the resurrection is verbal."

George Steiner, After Babel.