“It is primarily the inability to tolerate feelings that brings about disassociation between thought and feeling. Although this is considered a characteristic of schizophrenic behavior, it is true of us “normal“ people and not of schizophrenics. In the latters’ case, disassociation is an expression of the refusal to produce imposed in the hypocritical feelings. For it is not that schizophrenics are incapable of tolerating real feelings of pain, sorrow, despair, or joy; they simply reject living with the distortions of these feelings. But when “normal“ men and women cannot tolerate helplessness, for instance, they need to seek relief in a “reality“ that is contemptuous of such an experience and that denies its inherent potentiality as a source of genuine strength.”