"Between the psychological subject who first appeared within the therapeutic regime of Freudian analysis and the living soul who had long enjoyed an eminent station in the religion, philosophy, and plain intuitions of untold centuries, there is a vast qualitative difference. The former may emerge from the mysterious darkness of the unconscious, but the latter is bound by countless sympathetic ties to the much more mysterious depths of all things. The former is always presumptively a patient whose cure is a matter of inner mechanical adjustment while the latter is a participant in orders of reality not merely hidden beneath the surface of private personality but also transcending the limits of the self. The one requires therapy, the other ‘magic’, and – as McCormack’s study wonderfully illuminates – a scrupulous anatomy of melancholy is an ideal proof of which truly has the power to heal.”(David Bentley Hart)
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