Cultural evolution is equivalent to the removal of ornament from articles in daily use.

Evolution der kultur ist gleichbedeutend mit dem entfernen des ornamentes aus dem gebrauchsgegenstande.

Adolf Loos

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Topic

Cultural evolution Minimalism

Speaker

Adolf Loos

Medium

Lecture

Language

German

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Architect

From

Czech Republic Europe

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Original Citation

Loos, Adolf. "Ornament und Verbrechen [Ornament and Crime]." 21 Jan. 1910, Academic Association for Literature and Music, Vienna, Austria. Lecture.

Current Citation

Loos, Adolf. Ornament and Crime. Penguin Classics, 2019.

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Time
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Another quote originally in German

The ego's relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding and powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the ego and the id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go.

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Sigmund Freud
Source
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
Genre
Psychological literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
German
Time
1933 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 31. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 31.