LOVE IS IN THE AIR, SÍ.

Nothing punishes as self-torment.

SOREN KIERKEGAARD

(...) Cognition becomes split off from the emotions, wich are walled off in order to avoid the pain of guilt. A dissociation is thus created. But since deception is unnatural , some truhts manage to enter awareness. Some feelings of guilt also diffuse into consciousness, in spite of efforts to supressed them, and may be experienced as pains, aches, fears, phobias, night-mares, delusions(...)

(...)The lie begun in self-defense slips into self-deception. This is the end of sanity because it leads to self-negation, wich is the end of being and the ultimate anxiety (...)

(...) One sin usually follows another, even more senseless than the first, and often unrelated. This is how the cancerous process of sin is liable to bring about destruction of soul, mind and body. It is said by Jewish tradition that sin appears first as a paser-by, them becomes a guest, and eventually takes over as a master of the house (...)

(...)The sinner always feels judged and condemned by others, in spite of the fact that "others" are frequently unaware of his sin or crime (...)

(...) Man´s sense of existencial guilt derives not from omitting to develop his potentialities, but from failing to fulfill those life-tasks and missions imposed on him by the reallity of his destiny................. . . . .

REASON IN MADNESS, AN EXISTENCIAL APPROACH TO PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS.

By M. D. NIV, M.D.

Ilustración by Leonardo Da Vinci, dragon.