ABSTRACT
Most neurotic behaviors are unfortunate addictions to a bad habit that wastes life's gift: this instant, this body, this love, this destiny, not what could be if things were better. The ordinary neurotic personality is like somebody who possesses a colossal fortune and worries every day when the Dow Jones goes down a few points. Inner work, as it reveals the interpreting program running in the background, can modify a life's trajectory. That is night vision: see through the symptom, and reveal the tragic-comedy of the human condition. Janet's concept of anxiety as a "fear without an object" has been considered from many angles. The word anxiety and the word modernism often appear in the same sentence, just as postmodernism seems to call for the word irony, revealing the historicity of emotions. The relatively recent genomic and brain-imaging tools enable significant progress in the research for physical and molecular features of depression.
