Sublime

himself. Suicide often leaves the survivors with an unsolved mystery: Why? What could have been done to prevent this? Meanwhile, Samantha was always looking for problems in her relationships, searching for issues that would inevitably provide her with a reason

Semrad taught us that most human suffering is related to love and loss and that the job of therapists is to help people “acknowledge, experience, and bear” the reality of life—with all its pleasures and heartbreak.

Freud was a modern alchemist who reformulated medieval demons as complexes and Darwinian imperatives. He translated all things devilish - lust, violence, cruelty - into terms that were compatible with twentieth-century thinking.

In fact, it is possible to read The Interpretation of Dreams as a first-person, experimental novel; a book about a late nineteenth-century bourgeois doctor's obsessive search for the solution to an ancient mystery. His single-mindedness is vaguely reminiscent of Ahab's obstinate pursuit of the great white whale in Moby Dick. As the quest proceeds,