The Schizoid Man Is The Natural Product

In Any Discussion Of Religion And Personality Integration The Question Is Not Whether Religion Itself Makes For Health Or Neurosis, But What Kind Of Religion And How Is It Used? Freud Was In Error When He Held That Religion Is Per Se A Compulsion Neurosis. Some Religion Is And Some Is Not.

Courage Is Necessary To Make Being And Becoming Possible.

When One Read's Kierkegaard's Profound Analyses Of Anxiety And Despair Or Nietzsche's Amazingly Acute Insights Into The Dynamics Of Resentment And The Guilt And Hostility Which Accompany Repressed Emotional Powers, One Might Pinch Oneself To Realize That One Is Reading Works Written In The Last Century And Not Some New Contemporary Psychological Analysis.

Lacking Positive Myths To Guide Him, Many A Sensitive Contemporary Man Finds Only The Model Of The Machine Beckoning Him From Every Side To Make Himself Over Into Its Image.

Deeds Of Violence In Our Society Are Performed Largely By Those Trying To Establish Their Self-esteem, To Defend Their Self-image, And To Demonstrate That They, Too, Are Significant.