2 Quotes by Daniel Benveniste

It was particularly moving to see, as the story unfolds, how such a badly traumatized, conflicted, and tormented human being as Ernest was could finally, later on in his life, soar high, accomplishing and contributing much to the field of his choice. Thus, he earned his rightful place among many other distinguished psychoanalysts.

Long-past ages have a great and often puzzling attraction for men’s imagination. Whenever they are dissatisfied with their present surroundings – and this happens often enough – they turn back to the past and hope that they will now be able to prove the truth of the inextinguishable dream of a golden age. They are probably still under the spell of their childhood, which is presented to them by their not impartial memory as a time of uninterrupted bliss. – Sigmund Freud, “Moses and Monotheism.