Where did Freud say, “The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious. What I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.”?
This was first quoted by Philip R. Lehrman in ‘Freud’s Contributions to Science’ (in the journal ‘Harofe Haivri’ Vol.1 (1940) and then cited by Lionel Trilling in ‘Freud and Literature’ (in ‘The Liberal Imagination’ [1940]). Credit for tracking this one down goes to Jeffrey Berman. He believes the remark was made in 1928 to Professor Becker in Berlin. (Also thanks to Norman N. Holland for bringing it to our attention.
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