A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair

are unable to free themselves therefrom, and have therefore come to be completely estranged both from the present and the future. They are now isolated in their ailment, just as in earlier days people withdrew into monasteries there to carry along the burden of their unhappy fates.

He who gathers his own experience will be convinced of it.