THE NEUROTE - VPROGIDS
illustration accompanying an article about the fifth episode of the VPRO OVT series 'De ware aard' in which on
a search was undertaken into the nature of man by sifting through classical texts. These
The episode was about Sigmund Freud's 'Culture and Unease.'‘
“If there was anyone who placed the inner life of the educated man on the dissecting table, it was Sigmund Freud. Within us still dwelled the first savage primitive, he argued, driven by drives he could barely recognize: a character who knew deep down that he had not become happier since he started walking upright, but who could no longer, or did not want to, walk on four legs.
The only thing left for man to do is to keep the animal, or rather, the beast, at bay.
A task that evokes many a neurotic hour or neurosis, according to philosopher, writer, and physician Bert Keizer; together with philosopher Thomas Muntz, he places Freud on the couch.”
