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Beauty Has Never Been An Important Topic In The Writings Of The Major Psychologists. In Fact, For Jung, Aesthetics Is A Weak, Early Stage Of Development. He Follows The Germanic View That Ethics Is More Important Than Aesthetics, And He Draws A Stark Contrast Between The Two. Freud May Have Written About Literature A Bit, But An Aesthetic Sensitivity Is Not Part Of His Psychology.

Each Of Us Needs An Adequate Biography: How Do I Put Together Into A Coherent Image The Pieces Of My Life? How Do I Find The Basic Plot Of My Story?

I Like To Imagine A Person's Psyche To Be Like A Boardinghouse Full Of Characters. The Ones Who Show Up Regularly And Who Habitually Follow The House Rules May Not Have Met Other Long-term Residents Who Stay Behind Closed Doors, Or Who Only Appear At Night. An Adequate Theory Of Character Must Make Room For Character Actors, For The Stuntmen And Animal Handlers, For All The Figures Who Play Bit Parts And Produce Unexpected Acts. They Often Make The Show Fateful, Or Tragic, Or Farcically Absurd.

It's Very Hard In Our Adversarial Society To Find A Third View. Take Journalism, Where Everything Is Always Presented As One Person Against Another: "now We're Going To Hear The Opposing View." There Is Never A Third View.

Without Time For Loss You Don't Have Time For Soul.