Ernest Jones
Ernest Jones
Alfred Ernest Jones, FRCP, MRCSwas a British neurologist and psychoanalyst. A life-long friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud from their first meeting in 1908, he became his official biographer. Jones was the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis and became its leading exponent in the English-speaking world. As President of both the International Psychoanalytical Association and the British Psycho-Analytical Society in the 1920s and 1930s, Jones exercised a formative influence in the establishment of its organizations, institutions and publications...
committed creativity ego merely public purpose therapy
Creativity not committed to public purpose is merely therapy or ego satisfaction.
bending bridge common creativity great means naughty phony rather sharing truly
Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.
chief dark enemies enemy forces nature unruly within
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him
simple ideas example
[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.
dark men enemy
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
men secured save-mother-earth
The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.
mother ambition self-confidence
His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.
golf secret wish
I wish to emphasize that there are no secrets to golf.
cat golf blood
Dividing the swing into its parts is like dissecting a cat. You'll have blood and guts and bones all over the place. But you won't have a cat.
fear heart people
[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear their own weaknesses.
witty mean people
...whatever other qualities Jews may posses, likable or the reverse, no one who knows them well can deny that they are personally interesting. By that I mean, specially alive, alert, quick at comprehending people or events and at making pungent or witty comments on them... One might at times find the rather hothouse family atmosphere, with it intensities and frictions, somewhat trying, but one could be sure of never being bored.