We Are All In A Post-hypnotic Trance

The Condition Of Alienation, Of Being Asleep, Of Being Unconscious, Of Being Out Of One’s Mind, Is The Condition Of The Normal Man. Society Highly Values Its Normal Man. It Educates Children To Lose Themselves And To Become Absurd, And Thus To Be Normal. Normal Men Have Killed Perhaps 100,000,000 Of Their Fellow Normal Men In The Last Fifty Years.

In A World Full Of Danger, To Be A Potentially Seeable Object Is To Be Constantly Exposed To Danger. Self-consciousness, Then, May Be The Apprehensive Awareness Of Oneself As Potentially Exposed To Danger By The Simple Fact Of Being Visible To Others. The Obvious Defence Against Such A Danger Is To Make Oneself Invisible In One Way Or Another.

Freud Was A Hero. He Descended To The Underworld And Met There Stark Terrors. He Carried With Him His Theory As A Medusa's Head Which Turned These Terrors To Stone.

We All Live Under The Constant Threat Of Our Own Annihilation. Only By The Most Outrageous Violation Of Ourselves Have We Achieved Our Capacity To Live In Relative Adjustment To A Civilization Apparently Driven To Its Own Destruction.

Man As Seen As An Organism Or Man As Seen As A Person Discloses Different Aspects Of The Human Reality To The Investigator. Both Are Quite Possible Methodologically But One Must Be Alert To The Possible Occasion For Confusion. (...) Seen As An Organism, Man Cannot Be Anything Else But A Complex Of Things, Of Its, And The Processes That Ultimately Comprise An Organism Are It-processes.