To my fellow tipsters still doggedly pursuing the source of the iceberg
idea:
Keep at it! We'll find the source yet. That Fechner attribution that we
got earlier seemed so definite, so it should be easy to check. For my
part, as I write this note I sit with a stack of volumes from Strachey's
massi
On 24 May Stephen Black wrote re the passage on Fechner in Ernest Jones's
biography on Freud [snip]:
>What Jones said, in expanded form was this:
>"He did not commit himself on the question of whether unconscious
processes could be psychical, but of their importance otherwise he was
convinced. "t
On 18 May 2006 at 16:55, Allen Esterson wrote:
> I haven't been able to trace Freud's use of the "iceberg" analogy,
> but, as Mike indicates, it originated with Gustave Fechner. According to
> Ernest Jones in volume one of his biography of Freud, Fechner "likened
> the mind to an iceberg which is
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 analog
