Thursday, May 09, 2019

Sounds Like Psych


Someone took Freud's Es, Ueberich, and Ich and rendered these words in 'English' as the more scientificky-sounding terms Id, Superego, and Ego, but how much better wouldn't It, Overi, and I have sounded . . .

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At 10:12 AM, Blogger Carter Kaplan said...

"Es, Ueberich, und Ich"

Why, it sounds like dancing!

 
At 10:14 AM, Blogger Carter Kaplan said...

And--great Scot!--I think I "feel" another entry for the Bestiary of Philosophical Conceptions coming on...

 
At 4:56 PM, Blogger Horace Jeffery Hodges said...

Who is this "Great Scot" of whom you speak so highly?

Jeffery Hodges

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At 1:23 AM, Blogger Carter Kaplan said...

It's a figurative expression suggesting admiration and surprise--I think Freud first described it in scientific terms.


As promised.

 

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