Posted by Sigismund on July 26, 2007, at 3:17:33
In reply to Depersonalisation, posted by Sigismund on July 24, 2007, at 19:33:25
From chapter prefaces to 'Feeling Unreal'.
"If the patient can tolerate the experience of unrealness for a time, he can make for himself a new reality which is more solidly grounded for his own needs and perceptions, and in a sense more 'real' than his old compromises were, however comfortable and familiar they might have felt."
J.S. Levy and P.L. Wachtel
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can fight and never stop fighting."
E.E. CummingsI said on the main board that I felt trapped by people, situations and language. Sometimes I am a little impressed by myself.
The idea that we might be trapped by language (without which we presumably cannot think) is very interesting.
Verne said something a little similar to this once.
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