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Albie Sachs

Anti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

South Africa · b. 1935

Albie Sachs is a South African lawyer, writer and former judge who was detained and tortured under apartheid and later lost an arm and the sight of one eye in a car bomb planted by South African security agents in Mozambique in 1988. Nelson Mandela appointed him to the first Constitutional Court of South Africa.

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Question Which book changed the way you think, and what did it change?

I’d been introduced to Freud through all this because I couldn’t understand why is it so difficult to be brave. There was something inside me that wanted to collaborate all the time with the people who wanted to destroy me, and I was searching for it, and I found there was a thing called the unconscious that everybody has. And you’ve got to be in touch with the unconscious to understand a lot of your behavior. And I read through volume after volume after volume of the collected works of Sigmund Freud.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 3 July 2009 source ↗

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