Analysis is the beggar’s need to explain how riches come to be; whatever he doesn’t possess must have been acquired by swindle; the other merely has the fortune; he, fortunately, knows.
Karl Kraus, arguing against Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis of Michaelangelo, as quoted in The Portable Curmudgeon (1987), Jon Winokur, editor.
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