ABSTRACT
Those born in the last ten or twenty years of the twentieth century have to a large extent experienced themselves as children already of the new millennium, because it was in it that they had reached maturity and spent most of their lives. The author suggests that living in both millennia is exciting because it gives people the sensation of belonging to different and contrasting worlds: the one of the children and the one of the grown-ups, the one of the past and the one of the future, the one of the living and the one of the dead. This could make one feel endowed with special powers, feeding those narcissistic fantasies of omnipotence which are reactions against unconscious fears of destruction, annihilation, and death, kept under check through magical control. The author further answers the question: What sort of cosmic, biological, and spiritual chaos, if any, did we expect to occur around the year 2000?
