That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.