Trigant Burrow > Quotes

“Under the misguided jurisdiction of the ‘ I ’-persona, hunger instead of being the hunger of the ontosoma—of the individual as organism—has become arbitrarily decentred or personalized. It has become “ my ” hunger. It has become contracted into the subjectively privileged ‘ I ’-persona of each “ me ”, with its enormously exaggerated and distorted image-evaluations.”
― Trigant Burrow, The Neurosis Of Man

“The quality in these personalities which more and more forced itself on my recognition was a certain organic fidelity of feeling, a certain insistent unitariness or harmony of reaction in the sphere of feeling-tendencies which appeared to constitute the very law of their being.”
― Trigant Burrow, Preconscious Foundations of Human Experience