Without Time For Loss You Don't Have

You Don't Know What You're Going To Get Into When You Follow Your Bliss.

Ecology Movements, Futurism, Feminism, Urbanism, Protest And Disarmament, Personal Individuation Cannot Alone Save The World From The Catastrophe Inherent In Our Very Idea Of The World. They Require A Cosmological Vision That Saves The Phenomenon 'world' Itself, A Move In Soul That Goes Beyond Measures Of Expediency To The Archetypal Source Of Our World's Continuing Peril: The Fateful Neglect, The Repression, Of The Anima Mundi.

I'm Not Critical Of The People Who Do Psychotherapy. The Therapists In The Trenches Have To Face An Awful Lot Of The Social, Political, And Economic Failures Of Capitalism. They Have To Take Care Of All The Rejects And Failures. They Are Sincere And Work Hard With Very Little Credit, And The Hmos And The Pharmaceutical Companies And Insurance Companies Are Trying To Wipe Them Out. So Certainly I Am Not Attacking Them. I Am Attacking The Theories Of Psychotherapy.

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.

The Capacity For People To Kid Themselves Is Huge. Living On Illusions Or Delusions, And The Re-establishing Of These Illusions Or Delusions Requires A Big Effort To Keep Them From Being Seen Through. But A Very Old Idea Is At Work Behind Our Current State Of Affairs: Enantiodromia, Or The Greek Notion Of Things Turning Into Their Opposite.