Monday, September 23, 2013

Money Wisdom #186

"At the mother's breast, in Freudian language, the child experiences that primal condition, forever after idealized, 'in which object-libido and ego-libido cannot be distinguished'; in philosophic language, the subject-object dualism does not corrupt the blissful experience of the child at the mother's breast."

Norman O Brown Life against Death - The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History (1959) p.51-52