Quotes from Norman O. Brown

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

Truth is error burned up.

All currency is neurotic currency.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

All currency is neurotic currency.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body

The solution to the problem of identity is, get lost