弗洛伊德击中他的手放在他的额头上,说,“我将该死的!这就是为什么你看起来那么熟悉!很高兴认识你,我已经极大地影响你的工作和哲学对人性”。卢梭微笑地望着他,说:“这对我来说是一种乐趣。那么,我亲爱的朋友你在想什么呢?“弗洛伊德回答说:“我想今天发生了什么人。是不可能逃脱的印象,人们通常使用错误的测量标准——他们寻求权力、成功和财富在别人为自己和欣赏他们,而且他们低估了生命的真正价值是什么。”[3]
卢梭摇了摇头,仿佛他一直想着同样的事情,说,“人是生而自由,和无处不受制约。”[4]
弗洛伊德看着卢梭,如果他完全理解了他说的。路人,男人会像两个老朋友迎头赶上当他们全神贯注在学习对话如何世界将是人类和如何追求权力和金钱的欲望导致人类自身的毁灭。弗洛伊德说:“像我这样的一个人不能没有爱好,强烈的激情——席勒的话一个暴君。我发现我的暴君,他服务我知道没有限制。我的暴君是心理学——这一直是我的遥远,引诱人的目标,现在既然我已经触及了神经症,走近的。”[5]卢梭明白无论多少弗洛伊德,他永远不会离开思考人性和心理学。他在研究人员说,个人和社会的主要贡献是“自我保护”,试图消灭他们是不合逻辑的,也是无效的。他进一步声称,这样做,它将“上帝是征服自然,重新设计的创造”[6]。卢梭宣称上帝赋予的概念需要和想要的人,最终他成为自私的在某些场合。无私的乐趣他还声称,不管一个人享受,不仅是因为神的命令自己,因为“没有什么比写在人的心脏,和神将有一个人做什么,他不离开另一个人的言语。他说自己;他的话都写在秘密的心。”
Freud hit his hand on his forehead and said, “I will be darned! That is why you look so familiar! It is a pleasure meeting you as I have been greatly influenced by your work and philosophy about the human nature”. Rousseau smiled back at him and said, “It is a pleasure for me as well. So what are you thinking about my dear friend?” Freud replied, “I am thinking about what has happened to man today. It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.” [3]
Rousseau shook his head, as if he had been thinking about the same thing and said, “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” [4]
Freud looked at Rousseau as if he completely understood what he was saying. To a passer-by, the men would look like two old friends catching up while they were engrossed in a learned conversation about how the world is turning out to be, humanity and how the lust for power and money has led mankind into its own destruction. Freud exclaimed, “A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion — in Schiller’s words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology – it has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.” [5] Rousseau understood that no matter how much Freud tried, he would never get away from thinking about the human nature and psychology. He exclaimed in his researchers that the main dedication of individuals and societies are “self-preservation” and to try and obliterate them is illogical and ineffective. He further claims that in doing so, it would “be to conquer nature, to redesign God’s creation” [6]. Rousseau proclaimed that God had bestowed the concept of needs and wants in man that eventually led him to become selfish at certain occasions. He also claimed that regardless of the selfless pleasures a man gets to enjoy, it is not only because of the command of God Himself and because “there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.”