ABSTRACT
Shame attached to comparison, feeling more or less by some inner or outer measure. S. Freud tended to call the religious mania to cleanse oneself of sin an obsessive-compulsive disorder and brought out how widespread it is in secular affairs. W. R. Bion states that he felt ashamed of winning the Distinguished Service Order as a nineteen-year-old tank commander in World War One. Psychoanalysis is a vehicle to try to explore capacities. The Garden of Eden story images a set of psychic states. Life is good, Yahweh feels, surveying his handy-work and handy-words. Paintings of Satan tearing and eating human flesh mirror psychic inflammation. Psychoanalysis has many studies of too little or too much emotion, too little or too much self or other centeredness. Freud calls consciousness a sense organ for perceiving psychical qualities. Psychotic delusion is hard to let go, loosen its grip.
