The Madman Is A Dreamer Awake

The Ego Represents What We Call Reason And Sanity, In Contrast To The Id Which Contains The Passions.

Against The Suffering Which May Come Upon One From Human Relationships The Readiest Safeguard Is Voluntary Isolation, Keeping Oneself Aloof From Other People. The Happiness Which Can Be Achieved Along This Path Is, As We See, The Happiness Of Quietness. Against The Dreaded External World One Can Only Defend Oneself By Some Kind Of Turning Away From It, If One Intends To Solve The Task By Oneself.

We Have Long Observed That Every Neurosis Has The Result, And Therefore Probably The Purpose, Of Forcing The Patient Out Of Real Life, Of Alienating Him From Actuality.

Like The Physical, The Psychical Is Not Necessarily In Reality What It Appears To Us To Be.

After All, We Did Not Invent Symbolism; It Is A Universal Age-old Activity Of The Human Imagination.