ABSTRACT
On the Anxiety Hypothesis the final phase of the Anxiety Drama is recognised to be Expiation. The end anticipated is of a tragic character, presumably because the end of existence on this globe is for one and all death, and for self-consciousness this fact is ever present somewhere in the mind. The end anticipated is always tragic, but equally certainly the dream subject seems to anticipate that when the curtain is rung down on this side of the veil there will be as surely a raising of the curtain which admits to life elsewhere. While there remains a reckoning, a day of account—for every child of man is a revolt subject—there is always something after which the dream subject in some obscure way is groping, an expected evolution of some kind which is supremely desirable—something for which all the pains and penalties of this existence are well worth while.
