...hands of science two great outrages against its naive self-love. The first was when humanity discovered that our earth was not the center of the universe, but only a tiny speck in a world-system hardly conceivable in its magnitude. This is associated in our minds with...

...world-system of a magnitude hardly conceivable." The next was Darwin's, who "robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world." And the third shock, Freud explained, came from his own work, which showed each one of us that "he...

...earth from its central position in the universe; Darwin's theories, which "robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world"; and Freud's own contribution, which demonstrated that the subject "is not even master in his own house,"...

...universe: "Humanity has in course of time had to endure from the hand of two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that...relegated him to a descent from the animal world." (In one of history's least modest pronouncements, Freud then stated that his own work had toppled the...

...doctrines taught something veiy similar. The second was when biological research robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world, implying an ineradicable animal nature in him: this transvaluation has been accomplished in our own...

...Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon the naive self,love. The first was when it realized that our earth was not the centre of the universe, hut only a tiny speck in a world,system of a magnimde hardly conceivahle: this...

...Humanity has, in the course of time, had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that our earth was not the centre of the universe, but only a tiny speck in a world-system of a magnitude hardly conceivable (Galileo)......

...conceivable." Three centuries later came the Darwinian revolution in biology, which "robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world, implying an ineradicable animal nature in him." Bad enough, but worse was yet to come: "Mankind's craving...

...magnitude hardly conceivable." The biological shock occurred when Darwin "robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world."24 The psychological shock, created by Freud's own psychoanalysis, was seen by the founder of...

..."Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that...created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world."32 This human concern with distinguishing ourselves from other animals on the grounds that we...