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Captain, cool and calm, always master of himself,
Jules Verne • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Our challenge includes going beyond unconscious displacement techniques, ritual violence, and the use of scapegoats as unconscious means of controlling our grandiosity and its demonic consequences. We must face the dragon consciously with our new psychoanalytic knowledge. This presents a huge and decisive challenge for our species. Meeting it
... See moreRobert L. Moore • Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity
Be he’s not a mad scientist, Orr thought dully, he’s a pretty sane one, or he was. It’s the chance of power that my dreams give him that twists him around. He keeps acting a part, and this gives him such an awfully big part to play. So that now he’s using even his science as a means, not an end … But his ends are good, aren’t they? He wants to
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • The Lathe of Heaven
Two conclusions I must inevitably draw from it—one bearing upon the unparalleled courage of Captain Nemo, the other upon his devotion to a human being, a representative of that race from which he fled beneath the sea.
Jules Verne • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
