In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.
If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
More and more individuals, owing to their bloodless indolence, will aspire to be nothing at all – in order to become the public: that abstract whole formed in the most ludicrous way, by all participants becoming a third party (an onlooker).
In order than everything should be reduced to the same level, it is first of all necessary to procure a phantom, its spirit, a monstrous abstraction, an all-embracing something which is nothing, a mirage – and that phantom is the public.
I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it – alas, not even the bliss of heaven.
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.