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Quotation from Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
“My belief is that there everyone is under the sway of preferences deeply rooted within, into the hands of which he unwittingly plays as he pursues his speculation”
Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. VI, closing pages, trans. C. J. M. Hubback (1922)
Freud concedes that on the ultimate questions of science and life no theorist, himself included, is impartial.
Citation: "My belief is that there everyone is under the sway of preferences deeply rooted within, into the hands of which he unwittingly plays as he pursues his speculation" — Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. VI, closing pages, trans. C. J. M. Hubback (1922). (id freud-beyond-the-pleasure-principle-q6)
