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Quotation from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
“But the third and most irritating insult is flung at the human mania of greatness by present-day psychological research, which wants to prove to the "I" that it is not even master in its own home”
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Lecture XVIII, trans. Authorised translation, Boni and Liveright (1920)
After Copernicus and Darwin, Freud names psychoanalysis as the third blow to human self-love and the reason for the hostility it meets.
Citation: "But the third and most irritating insult is flung at the human mania of greatness by present-day psychological research, which wants to prove to the "I" that it is not even master in its own home" — Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Lecture XVIII, trans. Authorised translation, Boni and Liveright (1920). (id freud-general-introduction-to-psychoanalysis-q4)
