Time is the work of attrition of that adaptation to which people must resign themselves so long as they fail to change the world.
Age is a role, an acceleration of 'lived' time on the plane of appearances, an attachment to things.
The growth of civilization's discontents is now forcing every branch of therapeutics towards a new demonology. In a fine passage of The Function of the Orgasm, Wilhelm Reich relates how after long months of psychoanalytic treatment he managed to cure a young Viennese working woman. She was suffering from depression brought on by the conditions of her life and work. When she was recovered Reich sent her back home. A fortnight later she killed herself.