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Quotation from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
“I did that," says my memory. "I could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually--the memory yields”
Beyond Good and Evil, Part Four, §68, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906)
A compressed account of motivated forgetting that later readers connected with Freud's repression.
Citation: "I did that," says my memory. "I could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually--the memory yields" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Part Four, §68, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906). (id beyond-good-and-evil-q6)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
