Schizophrenia Is A Successful Attempt

Society Highly Values Its Normal Man. It Educates Children To Lose Themselves And To Become Absurd, And Thus To Be Normal.

Freud Was A Hero. He Descended To The "underworld" And Met There Stark Terrors. He Carried With Him His Theory As A Medusa's Head Which Turned These Terrors To Stone. We Who Follow Freud Have The Benefit Of The Knowledge He Brought Back With Him And Conveyed To Us. He Survived. We Must See Of We Now Can Survive Without Using A Theory That Is In Some Measure An Instrument Of Defence.

I Am Quite Sure That A Good Number Of "cures" Of Psychotics Consist In The Fact That The Patient Has Decided, For One Reason Or Other, Once More To Play At Being Sane.

To Mystify, In The Active Sense, Is To Befuddle, Cloud, Obscure, Mask Whatever Is Going On, Whether This Be Experience, Action, Or Process, Or Whatever Is "the Issue." It Induces Confusion In The Sense That There Is Failure To See What Is "really" Being Experienced, Or Being Done, Or Going On, And Failure To Distinguish Or Discriminate The Actual Issues. This Entails The Substitution Of False For True Constructions Of What Is Being Experienced, Being Done (praxis), Or Going On (process), And The Substitution Of False Issues For The Actual Issues.

What Do You Do When You Don't Know What To Do? No Wonder There Are More Suicides Among Psychiatrists Than In Any Other Profession.