“There are certain kinds of reality that are so overwhelming that they admit of only one interpretation. And if someone comes and says, ‘Auschwitz made a man of me,’ you know that that is a defense. The business of analysis is to undo that defense and get to the pain and the sorrow. But they were arguing that there is no such thing as reality – that there is no single Auschwitz. That is the worst thing that analysis has left the world: the notion that there is no reality, that there are only individual experiences of it. That is Freud’s legacy to the twentieth century. He encouraged the whole twentieth century – anthropology, philosophy, sociology – to take that position, and it’s a wrongheaded and dangerous position. And a very convenient one.”

Have my copy of Paul Johnson's Modern Times sitting here; he closes the first chapter by listing Marx, Freud and Nietzsche, all three German (Austrian) atheists, as the prime movers of 20th century orthodox thought. All three very insidious men, without whom the world would have been a better place.