"Freud discovered in many of his patients sexual desires and hostile feelings of which they were not aware yet which were clearly making them ill. Because these desires and feelings resided in the unconscious, the notion arose that it was the unconscious that "caused" mental illness. But why were these desires and feelings located in the unconscious in the first place? Why were they repressed? The answer is that the conscious mind did not want them. And it is in this not-wanting, this disowning, that the problem lies.”
Bir kültürün kendini imha etmesi de o kültüre organik bütünlüğünü verem anlam-değer dünyasının yani maneviyatın ortadan kalkmasıyla başlar; vicdansızlaşan kültürün bireyleri de birbirlerini yemeye, soymaya, öldürmeye, yok etmeye kalkışırlar.