Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Karl Abraham
Born: May 3, 1877
Died: December 25, 1925 (aged 48)
Bio: Karl Abraham was an early important and influential German psychoanalyst, and a collaborator of Sigmund Freud, who called him his 'best pupil'.
Known for:
- Dreams and myths
- Psychoanalysis And The War Neuroses (1921)
- Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.
- Steam economy in the sugar factory