Sublime

His work is one of the great literary accounts of the psychic costs of reification, of what he calls “a peculiar malign abstractness” within the culture of mid-twentieth-century capitalism.

Half an hour later she hurried out of the morgue, thoroughly disgusted and spotted with stale blood, but with her hypothesis confirmed. Sydney Clarke could raise the dead.

Nerves, sex and celebrity are still closely connected in the popular imagination. Exclusive rehab clinics may have replaced the Grand Hotels of spa towns, but they essentially provide similar services for a similar clientele. And Schiele's brand of erotic emaciation continues to exert a strong influence on fashion.

At the heart of mental illness is a loss of control over our own better thoughts and feelings.