Greeting TIPsters!
I teach research methods and I have my students do original empirical
projects each semester. I have been having my students come up with their
own ideas for original research but you can imagine that it requires a
lot of handholding and close supervision. That said, it has
I am looking for a source on the Freud iceberg quote. You know the one:
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk
above water.
You see this everywhere, but rarely does a specific source accompany it. I
am told that Myers most recent intro text claims the iceberg analogy
Nietzsche, interesting. Any idea which of his works specifically? A brief
Google search didn't turn up much.
I've seen this analogy attributed to Fechner, who supposedly uses it in
his Elements of Psychophysics (1860). This makes sense to me (without
checking the source) because the Elements was
I went to our library today and I browsed every volume of The Standard
Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud edited by
James Strachey (1966 version).
I searched every index, and the word iceberg never appears.
I also looked at every Fechner ref (there were lots), found no
