Psychology is the sickness masquerading as the cure. Giving into the compulsive need of the human to "know, " it turns the individual experience into unintelligible metaphor. Myths and memes and modalities. There is neurosis in naming of neuroses. Its so easy to look cool...
"This journal is not a mere literary diversion. The further I progress, reducing to order what my past life suggests, and the more I persist in the rigor of composition--of the chapters, of the sentences, of the book itself--the more do I feel myself hardening in my will to utilize, for virtuous ends, my former hardships. I feel their power." --Jean Genet
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