Nov 24, 2018
A hippocratic sense that each human being deserves respectful treatment was never part of Freud’s perspective. Most people struck him as contemptible. “I have found little that is ‘good’ in human beings as whole,” he would write to Osakar Pfister. “In my experience, most of them are trash.” And he was unforgiving toward what he called the “moral cowardice” of hysterics.
Freud: The Making of an Illusion by Frederick Crewes