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Insanity Is A Perfectly Natural Adjustment To A Totally Unnatural And Negative Environment.

Man As Seen As An Organism Or Man As Seen As A Person Discloses Different Aspects Of The Human Reality To The Investigator. Both Are Quite Possible Methodologically But One Must Be Alert To The Possible Occasion For Confusion. (...) Seen As An Organism, Man Cannot Be Anything Else But A Complex Of Things, Of Its, And The Processes That Ultimately Comprise An Organism Are It-processes.

From The Alienated Starting Point Of Our Pseudo-sanity, Everything Is Equivocal. Our Sanity Is Not "true" Sanity. Their Madness Is Not "true" Madness. The Madness Of Our Patients Is An Artifact Of The Destruction Wreaked On Them By Us, And By Them On Themselves.

The Individual In The Ordinary Circumstances Of Living May Feel More Unreal Than Real; In A Literal Sense, More Dead Than Alive; Precariously Differentiated From The Rest Of The World, So That His Identity And Autonomy Are Always In Question.... He May Not Possess An Over-riding Sense Of Personal Consistency Or Cohesiveness. He May Feel More Insubstantial Than Substantial, And Unable To Assume That The Stuff He Is Made Of Is Genuine, Good, Valuable. And He May Feel His Self As Partially Divorced From His Body.

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.