/lit/ - Literature

>>21260027
> freud
peepee poopoo

>>20366976
>Let us try to apply the same test to the teachings of religion. When we ask on what their claim to be believed is founded, we are met with three answers, which harmonize remarkably badly with one another. Firstly, these teachings deserve to be believed because they were already believed by our primal ancestors ; secondly, we possess proofs which have been handed down to us from those same primaeval times ; and thirdly, it is forbidden to raise the question of their authentication at all. In former days anything so presumptuous was visited with the severest penalties, and even to-day society looks askance at any attempt to raise the question again.
It checks out

>Sigmund Freud
“I cannot imagine life without work as really comfortable,” Freud wrote to a friend in 1910. With his wife, Martha, to efficiently manage the household—she laid out Freud’s clothes, chose his handkerchiefs, and even put toothpaste on his toothbrush—the founder of psychoanalysis was able to maintain a single-minded devotion to his work throughout his long career. Freud rose each day by 7:00, ate breakfast, and had his beard trimmed by a barber who made a daily house call for this purpose. Then he saw analytic patients from 8:00 until noon. Dinner, the principal meal of the day, was served promptly at 1:00. Freud was not a gourmet—he disliked wine and chicken, and preferred solid middle-class fare like boiled or roast beef—but he enjoyed his food and ate with quiet concentration. Although normally a genial host, Freud could be so absorbed by his thoughts during the meal that his silence sometimes discomfited guests, who would struggle to carry a conversation with the other members of the family.

After dinner, Freud went for a walk around Vienna’s Ringstrasse. This was not a leisurely stroll, however; his son, Martin, recalled, “My father marched at terrific speed.” Along the way he would often purchase cigars and collect or deliver proofs to his publisher. At 3:00 there were consultations, followed by more analytic patients, until 9:00 at night. Then the family ate supper, and Freud would play a game of cards with his sister-in-law or go for a walk with his wife or one of his daughters, sometimes stopping at a café to read the papers. The remainder of the evenings was spent in his study, reading, writing, and doing editorial chores for psychoanalytical journals, until 1:00 A.M. or later.

Freud’s long workdays were mitigated by two luxuries. First, there were his beloved cigars, which he smoked continually, going through as many as twenty a day from his mid-twenties until near the end of his life, despite several warnings from doctors and the increasingly dire health problems that dogged him throughout his later years. (When his seventeen-year-old nephew once refused a cigarette, Freud told him, “My boy, smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, I can only feel sorry for you.”) Equally important, no doubt, were the family’s annual three-month summer vacations, which they spent in a spa or hotel in the mountains, going on hikes, gathering mushrooms and strawberries, and fishing.

>>11250079
>>11249891
>I need a fancy rhyming scheme like AbAbCCddEffEgg
Not like Yevgeniy Anegin isn't one of the prettiest poems ever too

Leave, /pol/

So Paris and Vienna used to be the places to be for literati.
What cities are there now to go to?

>>7853516
>>7853521
>>7854572

Correct answer:

Freud>Nietzsche>>Hitchens>>>>Marx>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Dawkins> Harris

>>7824082
>plunge into Camus (I wish I could)

Very interesting. Do go on.

I'm interested in the philosophy of mathematics and sciences. How would I go about learning more, and what should I read?

Name one good thing philosophy has offered to mankind.
>protip: you can't
>pic related, a field worth of study

What is your day usually like? How does it begin and how does it end?

>>6364626

You really want the world to love and respect you hu?

>>6363427
>Bourgeois Psychology
We don't like your kind here

What are his most essential writings? The shorter the better.

>>6269810

>feelings are useless
>feelings should be supressed at all costs to make way for progress

Tell me about your mother.

>pretty much everything he ever said has been proven to be faulty
>/lit/ still takes him seriously

They want a "D"

how do you feel about your mother?

If you try to prove me wrong you're most definitely in need of some psychoanalysis.

>>4933820
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