When a loved one loses her health, it is a sadness. But when she even begins to lose her mind, it's a sadness and a betrayal, an emblem of our deepest fear. He who has never felt, momentarily, what madness is, has but a mouthful of brains. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience. In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty.
Nothing is as practical as a good theory.
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him and each man as he really is. William James Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification. I hope that Freud and his pupils will push their ideas to their utmost limits, so that we may learn what they are.