I Don't Think You Can Revive Traditions

What I Try To Point Out Is The Role An Ordinary Person Can Have In Seeing The Child's Destiny. You Have To Have A Feeling For The Child.

When They Talk About Family Values, It's In A Repressive Way, As If Our American Tradition Were Only The Puritan Tradition Or The 19th Century Oppressive Tradition. The Christian Tradition.

It's A Terrible Cruelty Of Predatory Capitalism: Both Parents Now Have To Work. A Family Has To Have Two Incomes In Order To Buy The Things That Are Desirable In Our Culture. So The Degradation Of Motherhood - The Sense That Motherhood Isn't Itself A Calling - Also Arises From Economic Pressure.

The Self Divided Is Precisely Where The Self Is Authentically Located. . . We All Have Identity Crises Because A Single Identity Is A Delusion Of The Monotheistic Mind. . . Authenticity Is In The Illusion, Playing It, Seeing Through It From Within As We Play It, Like An Actor Who Sees Through His Mask And Can Only See In This Way.

Psychology Is Ultimately Mythology, The Study Of The Stories Of The Soul.