Freud's link to a Hegelian tradition-with which he otherwise shares little-is in the deliberate renunciation of common sense. "A person who professes to believe in commonsense psychology,” Freud is reported saying once, "and who thinks psychoanalysis is ‘far-fetched' can certainly have no understanding of it, for it is common sense which produces all the ills we have to cure.”. (Russell Jacoby)

Freud's link to a Hegelian tradition-with which he otherwise shares little-is in the deliberate renunciation of common sense. "A person who professes to believe in commonsense psychology,” Freud is reported saying once, "and who thinks psychoanalysis is ‘far-fetched' can certainly have no understanding of it, for it is common sense which produces all the ills we have to cure.”.

Russell Jacoby

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