By Neville Symington
A unprecedented and weird attention of the religious dimensions of sanity from a psychoanalytic viewpoint, this transcription of a sequence of 7 lectures added on the Tavistock hospital seize the spontaneity and immediacy of the interaction among one of many world's most outstanding psychoanalysts and an viewers of his friends.
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Neither science on its own nor religion on its own will do the trick. 41 42 THE SPIRIT OF SANITY So what is the pattern of madness? What is madness? What is it? In my book on narcissism I use the phrase “narcissistic constellation”, and I posited the idea in that book that what constitutes narcissism is a refusal of the infinite in our being, what at that time I referred to as “the life-giver”. I’ve changed my way of thinking about it. It’s the same idea, but it’s like the refusal of this basic element out of which we are all constituted, and it is that which produces madness.
It happened in 30 THE SPIRIT OF SANITY Judaism, it happened in Christianity and in fact it happened in all the eastern religions. ” That was the Buddha, but it wasn’t too long before he was made basically into a god. Jesus was specifically made into a god. Mohammed, although not theologically, has effectively been made into a god, and the whole Salman Rushdie episode sort of proves it, really. But as soon as that happens, you get the position of “I mustn’t do this because I am told not to”, and as soon as that comes into play, conscience gets smothered.
In a correspondence with Elliot Jaques I suggested that one shouldn’t use the word “decision” because it’s so misapplied, and instead use some word like “realization” or “inner illumination” or “new understanding”. ” I say this because I think many many things that are called decisions are not decisions at all. They are reactions. Thinking of that man—what was it, what was that something that moved in the depths? That thought was a creative thought, and so something that has been created in the depths.
