It's Better To Go Into The World

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.

We Need To Get Back To Trusting Our Emotional Rapport With Children, To Seeing A Child's Beauty And Singling That Child Out. That's How The Mentor System Works - You're Caught Up In The Fantasy Of Another Person. Your Imagination And Their Come Together.

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.

To Hope For Nothing, To Expect Nothing, To Demand Nothing. This Is Analytical Despair.