The Death of the Enlightenment

By ANNA GRAY

Published: November 17, 2010

 

The French Enlightenment extolled our rationality

Until it was stabbed in the chest

By Freud

With the Knife he found

When he dove to the bottom of the sea and

Explored the depths of the psyche

 

And when he came to the surface,

Gasping and thrilled,

He lifted from the water his shining find:

The Unconscious