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INTERVIEWER
Can a successful therapy ever be . . . closely allied to a reading of Freud?
BLOOM
I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
INTERVIEWER
It’s always interminable?
BLOOM
I do not know anyone who has ever benefited from Freudian or any other mode of analysis, except by being, to use the popular trope for it, so badly shrunk, that they become quite dried out. That is to say, all passion spent. Perhaps they become better people, but they also become stale and uninteresting people with very few exceptions. Like dried cheese, or wilted flowers. |
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