Dysfunctional Dreamer

Truth

Here is something I found when accidentally chancing upon this book, by Saul Bellow. This particular paragraph certainly makes a lot more sense put in words than I can ever comprehend in my head.So for all the fellow manic depressives out there, here is something to identify to, just like I have.

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'But think- if Energy is Delight and if Exuberance is Beauty, the Manic Depressive knows more about Delight and Beauty than anyone else.Who else has so much more Energy and Exuberance?Maybe it is the strategy of Psyche to increase Depression.
Didn't Freud say that Happiness was nothing but the remission of Pain?So the more Pain the intenser the Happiness.But there is a prior origin to this, and the Psyche makes Pain on purpose.
Anyway, Mankind is stunned by the Exuberance and Beauty of certain individuals. When a Manic Depressive escapes from his Furies he is irresistable. He captures History. I think that aggravation is a secret technique of the Unconscious.'

Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow.
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posted by nori_b @ 1:44 PM