Aldous Huxley
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Lectures, interviews, and conversations with Aldous Huxley — novelist, philosopher, and author of Brave New World.
…you see, this thing infinitely goes beyond the personal subconscious. your mother or your father or any of these things which the Freudians talk about, you see, you are suddenly presented with faces which are total strangers to you, you see, as if people…
…untrue. And his followers, of course, dogmatically insist upon this. I mean, in the most ridiculous way. The orthodox Freudians, well, thank heaven, the most psychotherapists are not orthodox Freudians now. They are eclectics and making use of organic…
…I mean, in the most ridiculous way. The orthodox Freudians, well, thank heaven, the most psychotherapists are not orthodox Freudians now. They are eclectics and making use of organic and chemical methods and psychological and sociological methods which…
…the sociological factors, the physical factors, the chemical factors, all of them. Practically, you see, I mean, the trouble with the Freudians is that they took only one set of factors into account. Well, of course, their system doesn't work at all well…
…fact, it is now the conception of the unconscious, isn't it, that we use instead. But what we don't use, what the Freudians don't use, is the counterpart in Greek, in Homeric literature, which is menos, which is the divine capacity to do the impossible.…
…is the world of fancy and imagination. There is the world of dream, closely connected with the world of what the Freudians and the Jungians call the personal unconscious. There is the world of what Jung calls the collective unconscious with these archetypal…
…which took place during the day before the... we went to sleep and or in very recent times, but some quite clearly as the Freudians have pointed out, refer in a symbolic way to buried material. And yet others seem to partake of the nature of what Jung…