Herakleitos Fragment 47 (The Psyche Lusts)

 

The psyche lusts to be wet [and to die].

Upper Image:  Freud's Sofa, Freud Museum, London

Lower Image: Sand Sculptor's Impression of A Psychiatric Session On Freud's Sofa (R. Haworth, 2009, Seventh International Sand Sculpture Festival)
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Trans. Guy Davenport, Herakleitos and Diogenes.

San Francisco, Grey Fox Press, 1976.