My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.
Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.
What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.
Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.