The Test Of A Man Is: Does

The Test Of A Man Is: Does He Bear Apples? Does He Bear Fruit?

[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.

As One Studies These Preconditions, One Becomes Saddened By The Ease With Which Human Potentiality Can Be Destroyed Or Repressed, So That A Fully-human Person Can Seem Like A Miracle, So Improbable A Happening As To Be Awe-inspiring. And Simultaneously One Is Heartened By The Fact That Self-actualizing Persons Do In Fact Exist, That They Are Therefore Possible, That The Gauntlet Of Dangers Can Be Run, That The Finish Line Can Be Crossed.

I Was Awfully Curious To Find Out Why I Didn't Go Insane.

There Is, First, The Desire For Strength, For Achievement, For Adequacy, For Confidence In The Face Of The World, And For Independence And Freedom. Secondly, We Have What We May Call The Desire For Reputation Or Prestige