Sublime

A peculiarity of Richard’s was that he lacked a conscience or superego in the normal senses of those terms. His was a soul lacking any built-in adult supervision.

The Rorschach routinely “overpathologizes” healthy people, Wood and the others maintain, making them seem much more dysfunctional than they really are.

“Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him,” Walker Percy observes.

She was unreachable, trapped on that vicious merry-go-round of mental illness: sickness, bizarre behavior, institutionalization, medication, stability, release, abandonment of medication regimen, sickness.

Nothing can be heard in the mind until the situation feels safe and familiar to the body.

Repressing my own feelings became my default mode for moving through the world.

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach, the developmental psychologist Howard Gardner

The informal leader of this whole crew, of course, was Sigmund Freud.