Estou a ler um thriller. A história é ficcional, mas é inspirada por factos verídicos e bastante interessante. A meu ver, claro está! Passa-se em inícios do século XX e relata a resolução de uma série de assassinatos recorrendo não apenas aos métodos tradicionais, mas também à então novíssima psicanálise. Uma das personagens é Freud...
Além de ser de leitura quase compulsiva (o que para mim é habitual em
thrillers) acaba por apresentar muitas das teorias desenvolvidas por Freud e deparamo-nos com discussões interessantes e frases que dão que pensar.
Deixo aqui duas das minhas preferidas:
"There is no
mystery to
happiness.
Unhappy man are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn - or worse, indifference - cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live eachday within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.
But there's a rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The ways of
happiness and
meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live
for the moment. But if he wants meaning - the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life - a man must reinhabit his past, howevre dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them."
"All
feeling is painful, one way or another. The most exquisite joy is a sting to the heart, and love - love is a crisis of the soul."
E uns bombons...bem bons!!
