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Re: Psychoanalysis Re: "happiness is a transitory state"

Louis Proyect wrote:


You mean the neurotic is not adjusted to one of the most maladjusted
societies since the dawn of civilization? Much of the time I feel like
Alan Bates in "The King of Hearts" anyhow.

No. I never said anything about adjustment. I was speaking about one's
ability to be present: to present injustice, to present beauty, to
present poverty, to present uglyness, to present stupidity... I said
that the neurotic is unable to experience the present.

Joanna

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