Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Sigmund Freud said
happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.
On the topicWhat makes a good life?under our view: Love and other people are at the centre of it
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love-object or its love.
Where this was said
↗Civilization and Its Discontents (tr. Joan Riviere, 1930)gutenberg.org
All 20 korrents from this piecethis one is 8th
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