The Etymologicon
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247 printed pages
- Original publication
- 2011
- Publication year
- 2011
Impressions
- Inna Shafikovashared an impression2 years ago
👍Worth reading💡Learnt A Lot🎯Worthwhile🚀Unputdownable😄LOLZIt is the best! It is probably the first time I've laughed since the war began
Quotes
- Nataliia Dmytrenkohas quoted3 years ago
So it was Carl and not Sigmund who decided that a psychological problem should be called a complex. Then he thought up introverts and extroverts, and finally, realising that naming was a doddle, he invented synchronicity and ambivalent. And with that he sat down to rest - Nataliia Dmytrenkohas quoted3 years agoAnalysis is Greek for release. So Freud’s new art would be, literally, the liberation of the butterfly. How pretty! Fr
- Nataliia Dmytrenkohas quoted3 years agoThis was the belief of the Maoris, and of the Aztecs in whose mythology Itzpapalotl was the goddess of the Obsidian Butterfly: a soul encased in stone who could be freed only by another tongue-twisting god called Tezcatlipoca.
There also seems to have been a ghost of this belief among the ancient Greeks. The Greek for butterfly was psyche, and Psyche was the goddess of the soul.
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