Existential Psychology (1969)

Not to recognize the daimonic itself turns out to be daimonic, it makes us accomplices on the side of the destructive possession.

Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic...

[The daimonic] needs to be directed and channeled - consciousness can integrate the daimonic, make it personal... - the daimonic always has its biological base…

For in order to avoid having to deal with relative values, he had long since come to deny all purpose to the phenomenon of existence - it was more expedient an…

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

I cannot believe in a paradise Glorious, undefiled, For gates all scrolled and streets of gold Are tales for a dreaming child. I am too lost for shame That it …