There is an elegance in the conceptualization of emotion as a truer language, a lost language that rediscovered in the therapist's office provides a new understanding of self and world. But just as true is the fact that our common language, limited and awkward, nevertheless reveals its own exceptional insights. There is no better way to bespeckle a person's neurosis than to listen, watch for, the cracks that appear in the unconscious babble. How quickly one sees the shadow cast in the unintentional vocabulary that inadvertently voices an individual's obsessions.
"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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