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reviewed Thalassa by Sándor Ferenczi

Sándor Ferenczi: Thalassa (Paperback, W. W. Norton) 2 stars

In Thalassa, Ferenczi expands the symbols of pallus and vagina into cosmic symbols, not by …

Cause of death: too much Haeckel

2 stars

I get it. It must've been quite interesting and influential during its time.

But it isn't anymore. If anything, this serves as an archetypal example of the worst ways of deriving theoretical conclusions from psychoanalysis (or importing conclusions from other fields into it).