ABSTRACT

The sense that one is living a lie is important to many and often goes with a sense that an important flame is waning. Fused with this is fear that self-discovery is sinful. Guilt, fear and shame attaches to development and to failure to develop. Fusion of opposites is the rule in psychic life. Creative theft melds with destructive dreads. Unbearable agonies prompt easeful lies and falsity to escape pain and helplessness ... Real touches real, sometimes for evil, sometimes for good, often the two indiscernible, indistinguishable. This book affirms that there is something in us that works with all its might to tip the balance towards the good.- Michael Eigen, from the Foreword

chapter ONE|9 pages

Introduction

chapter TWO|7 pages

Primary aloneness

chapter FOUR|21 pages

Guilt in an age of psychopathy*

chapter FIVE|17 pages

I killed Socrates

chapter SIX|4 pages

Revenge ethics

chapter SEVEN|53 pages

Something wrong

chapter EIGHT|7 pages

Emily and M.E.

chapter NINE|12 pages

Faith and destructiveness