“Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently.” MenYearsExistenceConditionsCivilizationConsequenceFunctionChaosIncapablePsychicsPrevailingDisturbanceMechanizationInternalizing Author:Wilhelm Reich
“We can study various psychic functions and also the more primitive sensory functions, such as seeing, hearing, and so on, which constitute our image of our everyday world. They have a material side and the psychic side. And that is a gap which you cannot explain.” WorldSidesStudySeeingMaterialsFunctionEverydayVariousHearingGapsPrimitivePsychicsSensory Author:Albert Hofmann
“The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!” KnowsNeedsWaitingConsciousFunctionPsychics Author:Jacques Lacan
“There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.” WritingMayMomentsStoriesCertainProcessOne ThingFrontsSucceedAreasDirectFunctionInstrumentsSensesPlotPsychicsContinuityEntertainers Book:Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.” ThinkingFirstsWholeStoriesNumbersHappenedDogEvidenceAreasCatFunctionAgentsNativeCompanionEfficientAccurateGrainEgyptPsychicsSnakesTamedWeaselsRodentsMayans Author:William S. Burroughs
“Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.” DogCatFunctionAgentsCompanionEfficientPsychicsSnakesWeaselsRodents Book:The Cat Inside Source: The Cat Inside
“The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.” WayTryingDreamMaterialsBalanceFunctionPsychologicalSubtlePsychicsEquilibrium Author:Carl Jung