…of the 19th century the basic energies of nature were considered to be very much inferior to human consciousness in quality. Ernst Haeckel, a biologist of that time, would think of the energy of the universe as blind energy. And correspondingly it seems to…

…psyche as libido and compare them to the blind forces of brute emotions? You know think of that language. At the same time, Ernst Haeckel and t h Huxley and so on were thinking about the world as the manifestation of energy, say Henri Bergson with the…

…and you call it libido, which is a cuss word. Libidinous means blind lust, and Freud used that word in parallel with Ernst Haeckel, who was a contemporary biologist who thought that the energy of the universe was blind energy, despite the fact we have…

…which I would call put down phrases. Freud spoke of the basic psychic energy as libido, which means blind lust. People like Ernst Haeckel spoke of the universe as being a manifestation of blind energy. Think of that put down word blind. And therefore we…

…think that this energy which goes on and off is inherently stupid, that it is a mechanical thing. Freud called it libido, Ernst Haeckel called it energy. And therefore we feel that we as human beings are flukes. A million monkeys working on a million…

…that reality itself is, to use the favorite term of 19th century scientists blind energy in, say the metaphysics of Ernst Haeckel and t h Huxley, the world is basically nothing but energy, blind, unintelligent force. And likewise, in parallel to this,…

…of the 19th century, the basic energies of nature were considered to be very much inferior to human consciousness in quality. Ernst Haeckel, a biologist of that time, would think of the energy of the universe as blind energy. And correspondingly it seems…

…that reality itself is, to use the favorite term of 19th century scientists, blind energy. In, say, the metaphysics of Ernst Haeckel and t h Huxley, the world is basically nothing but energy blind, unintelligent. Force. And likewise in parallel to this,…

…mechanisms. Notice that we speak of unconscious mental mechanisms and think of the libido in the same way as Ernst Haeckel thought of the energy of the universe as blind, unconscious, psychoanalysis is really psychohydraulics because of its century is…

…word blind, ruthless, uncomprehending lust. That's the foundation of the human unconscious and similarly to thinkers like of the 19th century, like Ernst Haeckel, even Darwin, Uh t h Huxley and so on, there was this notion that at the root of being is an…