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attributed to didier barra

verlaine & bonnard

wenceslas hollar

emil nolde, kopf

Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Hunnenschlacht

"According to legend, the battle was so ferocious that the souls of the dead warriors continued their fighting in the sky as they rose to Heaven."

"If the ego has not succeeded in properly mastering the Oedipus complex, the energic cathexis of the latter, springing from the id, will come into operation once more in the reaction-formation of the ego ideal. The abundant communication between the ideal and these Ucs. instinctual impulses solves the puzzle of how it is that the ideal itself can to a great extent remain unconscious and inaccessible to the ego. The struggle which once raged in the deepest strata of the mind, and was not brought to an end by rapid sublimation and identification, is now continued in a higher region, like the Battle of the Huns in Kaulbach's painting."