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Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love, power, fame, revenge. Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
Rational faith as well as rational despair are based on the most thorough, critical knowledge of all the factors that are relevant for the survival of man.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
It is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
Chronic boredom — compensated or uncompensated — constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)