people argue one another specifics Freud’s work blame prejudices time, — Andrew Solomon, Noonday Demon: Atlas Depression

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While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.

Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

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