ABSTRACT
Andre and Helena sought analysis because they wanted out. There were times when each had felt convinced that he or she wanted out of life itself. Both were employed in media jobs. To escape the suffering implicit in soul-change, Andre had prevented pain entering his consciousness by taking charge of his own images. Dependence upon the made image is a threat to the individuality of humankind, whether the image-makers present themselves as political propagandists, evangelical reformers, homiletic dogmatists, media producers or simply sales people, male or female. The place that media assumes in our lives resembles that of a patriarchal elder, judgemental and godlike. The speed of media input also discourages the distance and reflection needed for recovery from the immediate impact of an experience. A world experienced as remote and hostile to the individual had programmed this man for his media job.
