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Why does the same book elicit such a range of responses? There must be something in the particular reader that leaps out to embrace the book. His life, his psychology, his image of himself. There must be something lurking deep in the mind__r, as this Freud says, the unconscious__hat causes a particular reader to fall in love with a particular writer.
Irvin D. Yalom The Spinoza Problem
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Why does the same book elicit such a range of responses? There must be something in the particular reader that leaps out to embrace the book. His life, his psychology, his image of himself. There must be something lurking deep in the mind__r, as this Freud says, the unconscious__hat causes a particular reader to fall in love with a particular writer.
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Irvin D. Yalom

The Spinoza Problem

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