The Psychoanalytic Review, Volume 1

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W.A. White & S.E. Jelliffe, 1914 - Psychoanalysis
 

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Page 64 - Doubtless we think with only a small part of our past, but it is with our entire past, including the original bent of our soul, that we desire, will and act.
Page 2 - But if you follow the pragmatic method, you cannot look on any such word as closing your quest. You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience. It appears less as a solution, then, than as a program for more work, and more particularly as an indication of the ways in which existing realities may be changed.
Page 259 - Ah! thou wouldst not suffer me to kiss thy mouth, Jokanaan. Well, I will kiss it now. I will bite it with my teeth as one bites a ripe fruit.
Page 64 - What are we, in fact, what is our character, if not the condensation of the history that we have lived from our birth — nay, even before our birth, since we bring with us prenatal dispositions?
Page 249 - Sow peas and beans in the wane of the moon, Who soweth them sooner, he soweth too soon.
Page 2 - You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience. It appears less as a solution, then, than as a program for more work, and more particularly as an indication of the ways in which existing realities may be changed. Theories thus become instruments^ not answers to enigmas, in which ^we canjrest. We don't lie back upon them, we move forward, and, on occasion, make nature over again by their aid.
Page 244 - It is the very error of the moon ; She comes more near the earth than she was wont ; And makes men mad.
Page 258 - Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold.
Page 56 - Behind the avowed causes of our acts there undoubtedly lie secret causes that we do not avow, but behind these secret causes there are many others more secret still which we ourselves ignore. The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.
Page 250 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, 110 Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

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