"...psychotherapists may become the new spiritual leaders of mankind.
A disaster. Goethe was afraid the modern world might turn into a
hospital. Every citizen unwell. The same point in 'Knock' by Jules
Romains. Is hypochondria a creation of the medical profession? According
to this author, when culture fails to deal with the feeling of
emptiness [...] other agents come forward to put us together with
therapy, with glue, or slogans, or spit, or as that fellow Gumbein the
art critic says, poor wretches are
recycled on the couch. This view is even more pessimistic than the one
held by Dostoievski's Grand Inquisitor who said: mankind is frail, needs
bread, cannot bear freedom but requires miracle, mystery, and
authority. A natural disposition to feelings of emptiness and panic is
worse than that. Much worse. What it really means is that we human
beings are insane."
Saul Bellow (1915-2005). Humboldt's Gift (1975). London: Penguin Books, 2008, p. 177
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