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Hope Is A Necessity For Normal Life And The Major Weapon Against The Suicide Impulse.

Chess Is A More Highly Symbolic Game, But The Aggressions Are Therefore Even More Frankly Represented In The Play. It Probably Began As A War Game; That Is, The Representation Of A Miniature Battle Between The Forces Of Two Kingdoms

When A Trout Rising To A Fly Gets Hoooked On A Line And Finds Himself Unable To Swim About Freeely, He Begins With A Fight Which Results In Struggles And Splashes And Sometimes An Escape. Often, Of Course, The Situation Is Too Tough For Him. In The Same Way The Human Being Struggles With His Environment And With The Hooks That Catch Him. Sometimes He Masters His Difficulties; Sometimes They Are Too Much For Him. His Struggles Are All That The World Sees And It Naturally Misunderstands Them. It Is Hard For A Free Fish To Understand What Is Happening To A Hooked One.

People Repeat In Adult Life Emotions They Experience In Childhood. Many Of The People Whom I Spent The Last 30 Or 40 Years Treating At So Much Per Minute Wouldn't Have Needed Any Treatment At All If They Had Had The Right Care As Children.

We Have Come To See That Just As The Child Must Learn To Love Wisely, So He Must Learn To Hate Expeditiously, To Turn Destructive Tendencies Away From Himself Toward Enemies That Actually Threaten Him Rather Than Toward The Friendly And The Defenseless, The More Usual Victims Of Destructive Energy.