We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.