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“They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.”

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Thomas Gray, a prominent English poet, was born on December 26, 1716, in London, and died on July 30, 1771. He is considered one of the representative figures of 18th-century English literature, known for his lyric poetry and satirical works. more

“The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.”

Thinking World Needs Ideas Ends Problem Lying Lines Views Amount Reasoning Temples Excess Abandoned Contemplating Primitive Colleagues Inability Subjective Spectrum Psychosis Psychiatric

Book:Saturday

Source: Saturday

“He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence”

Seems Fate Violence Ideals Psychosis Irresponsibility Psychopathic

Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.”

Soul Suffering Passion Community Threat Scales Indication Schooling Beam Neurosis Psychosis Tilt Psychoanalytic

Book:Écrits: a selection

Source: Écrits: a selection

“We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I am struck again by the permanent impassibility of the divide. Some people who have lost a husband or a wife report feeling that person's presence, receiving that person's advice. Some report actual sightings, what Freud described in "Mourning and Melancholia" as "a clinging to the object through the medium of a hallucinatory wishful psychosis." Others describe not a visible apparition but just a "very strongly felt presence."”

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