Sublime

Writing fiction often contains an element of self-hypnosis, of flying in the dark.

For Freud, the self is – rather than a soul with an eternal nature – a complex amalgam of biological and social impulses, many of them quite ‘Darwinian’ in their primal mechanisms, and the conscious mind is only the surface of the ‘unconscious’, where hidden, largely irrational impulses, repressed desires,

The idea that the world we experience is a solipsistic delusion projected from the interior of our mind consoles rather than disturbs us, since it conforms with our infantile fantasies of omnipotence; but the thought that our so-called interiority owe its existence to a fictionalized consensus will always carry an uncanny charge.

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

Their own experience of their own nature might have contributed something to this idea of a self within but somehow independent of the body.

The id does not care about facts or evidence. The id's favourite literature is 'fake news'.

human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.

anarchy.