ABSTRACT
The happiness of any modern-day Sisyphus reflects an awareness of this process of growth and development. He is happy, that is, because of the ascents into an experience of the life of the self or mind, the experience of being that depends upon the descents to primitive mental states. A. Camus continues, "Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks". Ultimately, what one transcends—through human effort and always intermittently—is the duality of reason divided from one's fundamental emotional self upon which reason is based, a resolution of a mind divided from the body. Through the acceptance of one's own duality, one has the opportunity to develop the potential for truth, to have a mind. As Wilfred Bion wrote, "The patient who will not suffer pain fails to 'suffer' pleasure and this denies the patient the encouragement he might otherwise receive from accidental or intrinsic relief".
