For Heroes
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The remedy for a neurosis is not to strive to bring the outside world into conformation with the neurosis, but rather to look inward and attack the root of the problem.
[/ QUOTE ]I agree, of course.
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All attempts to bring the outside world into conformation with a neurosis are doomed to failure (and will probably create other problems as well).
[/ QUOTE ]The issue is not the peripheral neuroses of individuals but the main, underlying (and essentially "incurable") neurosis resulting from Man's deeply held denial of inescapable mortality. The cognitive sciences working on this issue (the all-important issue for Man, without a doubt) would never suggest conforming the world to this Ur-angst.
But, as soon as we understand, we need also to accept -- which is as good a "confrontation" as we can get. A Herculean task, in any case.
Mickey Brausch
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