ABSTRACT
The search for meaning involves a particular relation that each person seeks and establishes with themselves, and for many it may never rise to the level of objective thought. In the nineteenth century, caught up in the thoughtless greed and industrial power of capitalism, selves were subsumed by the eros of mass psychology, giving themselves over to a collective manic state that propelled them with psychotic exuberance into the Great War. The reality of this war shattered the manic mood, and when Europe emerged from its depressive aftermath, it was never to be remotely the same again. The aftermaths of the Great War and World War Two produced a waning of self-reflection, self-examination and self-accountability. World War Two, atomic bomb, Holocaust and Korean War ended the rosy pictures writers and political leaders could paint about humankind. The aim of borderline splitting is to allow both states of mind to co-exist in the same personality without ever communicating with one another.
