“The neurotic isolates himself from others, cannot engage freely in their partialization of the world, and so cannot live by their deceptions about the human condition. He lifts himself out of the ‘natural therapy’ of everyday life, the active, self-forgetful engagement in it; and so the illusions that others share seem unreal to him. This is forced. Neither can he, like the artist, create new illusions. As Anaïs Nin put it...‘The caricature aspect of life appears whenever the drunkenness of illusion wears off.’ And don’t some people drink to head off the despair of reality as they sense it truly is? Man must always imagine and believe in a ‘second’ reality or a better world than the one that is given him by nature. In this sense, the neurotic symptom is a communication about truth: that the illusion that one is invulnerable is a lie.”
Ernest Becker
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