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“this very act of consenting to its loss of control is itself the critical event of all crisis. To give up ones stature as the director of ones own existance: this is, for us, the ultimate death, the crisis that undermines our being in the most radical way.”
― The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis
― The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis
“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
“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
“This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.”
― 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
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