Youth and Egolatry by Pío Baroja
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is our own retina under the category of space, and the size of the
retinal image is the original unit of measurement applied by us to exterior objects. The Spaniard like a child, will have to amplify his retinal image, if he is ever to amount to anything. He will have to amplify it, and, no doubt, complicate it also. THE TRAGI-COMEDY OF SEX It is very difficult to approach the sex question and to treat it at once in a clear and dignified manner. And yet, who can deny that it furnishes the key to the solution of many of the enigmas and obscurities of psychology? Who can question that sex is one of the bases of temperament? Nevertheless, the subject may be discussed permissibly in scientific and very general terms, as by Professor Freud. What is unpardonable is any attempt to bring it down to the sphere of the practical and concrete. I am convinced that the repercussion of the sexual life is felt through all the phenomena of consciousness. According to Freud, an unsatisfied desire produces a series of obscure movements in consciousness which eat at the soul as electricity is |
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