We tend to think of Freud as a great innovator, but the truth is that he himself rested, like a ship on an iceberg, on a huge body of theory and knowledge which had accumulated before his time. Even the famous Unconscious had made its appearance at least seven decades earlier. As for such supposedly modern phenomena as multiple personalities, the vogue for them began in the first half of the nineteenth century; and the first case in which the perpetrator of a murder pleaded amnesia, and got off, was in the eighteen eighties.
Trending Quotes Topics:
One liners Quotes Moving on Quotes Trust Quotes Wedding blessings Quotes Pregnancy Quotes Farewells Quotes Soulmates Quotes Hard Work Quotes Baseball Quotes Smile Quotes Trending Authors:
Bhagavad GitaAnonymous Voltaire Mark Twain Samuel Taylor Coleridge Abraham Lincoln William Shakespeare wiz khalifa Ralph Waldo Emerson |
People viewed this also viewed Biology Quotes Devotion Quotes Hard Work Quotes Native Americans Quotes Sexiness Quotes Winter Quotes Ben Hogan Quotes Bodhidharma Quotes William Wycherley Quotes Interesting Reads
Books About Multiple personalitiesRelated Quotes
Quotes with Keyword Multiple personalities
|
