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Quotation from Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
“What follows now is speculation, speculation often far-fetched, which each will according to his particular attitude acknowledge or neglect”
Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. IV, opening, trans. C. J. M. Hubback (1922)
Freud openly marks the turn from clinical observation to conjecture before building his model of the protective barrier and the death instinct.
Citation: "What follows now is speculation, speculation often far-fetched, which each will according to his particular attitude acknowledge or neglect" — Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. IV, opening, trans. C. J. M. Hubback (1922). (id freud-beyond-the-pleasure-principle-q4)
