People Are Not Evil; They Are Schlemiels.

[concerning] The Usual Contempt With Which An Orthodox Analytic Group Treats All Outsiders And Strangers ... I Urge You To Think Of The Young Psychoanalysts As Your Colleagues, Collaborators And Partners And Not As Spies, Traitors And Wayward Children. You Can Never Develop A Science That Way, Only An Orthodox Church.

The Key Question Isn't "what Fosters Creativity?" But Why In God's Name Isn't Everyone Creative? Where Was The Human Potential Lost? How Was It Crippled? I Think Therefore A Good Question Might Not Be Why Do People Create? But Why Do People Not Create Or Innovate? We Have Got To Abandon That Sense Of Amazement In The Face Of Creativity, As If It Were A Miracle That Anybody Created Anything.

The Way To Recover The Meaning Of Life And The Worthwhileness Of Life Is To Recover The Power Of Experience, To Have Impulse Voices From Within, And To Be Able To Hear These Impulse Voices From Within — And Make The Point: This Can Be Done.

But Behavior In The Human Being Is Sometimes A Defense, A Way Of Concealing Motives And Thoughts, As Language Can Be A Way Of Hiding Your Thoughts And Preventing Communication.

Even When Adults Do Feel Their Safety To Be Threatened, We May Not Be Able To See This On The Surface. Infants Will React In A Fashion As If They Were Endangered, If They Are Disturbed Or Dropped Suddenly, Startled By Loud Noises, Flashing Light