People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.