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“When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.”
― The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis
― The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis
“But perhaps this is what normality is: a complex of dread and terror which compels the psyche to deny and restructure reality. Those who cannot ensconce themselves within social delusions either distort reality and hallucinate their own mirages, or they go mad.”
― Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Moral Terror
― Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Moral Terror
“Only by massive denial, repression of affect, and severe numbing of our human faculties and sensitivities could a person not feel a sense of remorse, apprehension, and dread.”
― Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Moral Terror
― Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Moral Terror
“It's enough for me to want something for that thing to die. My destiny, however, is not powerful enough to prove deadly to just anything. It has the unfortunate disadvantage of being deadly only to those things I want.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Once we know, on a deep level, that we must die, we choose, in various ways, purposely to give up our life in order to dispel the unbearable feelings of helplessness and dread.”
― The Fantasy Bond : Structure of Psychological Defenses
― The Fantasy Bond : Structure of Psychological Defenses
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