¶ Anger (1)
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Anger:
"I don’t have beliefs about anger. J You ask if anger has a shape.J I have my own analysis of the experience and I will point out my mother used to be very upset because I would not get angry. She wanted me to resent it if somebody did something to my younger brother or my sister; she wanted me to get angry about it and fight, and finally, to gratify her, I would find compassion for my younger brother if somebody were brutalizing him, but I did not go out and battle the other kid.
"I’m convinced personally today that anger and the aggressiveness is a secondary phenomenon–what we call fail-safe alternate circuitry. The very basic proclivity is to handle things without anger. Anger tends to destroy a very great deal–cuts off, and is very single-tracked and anything but comprehensive.
“Today, in order to recapture my sensitivities, I deliberately never pretend to myself that I don’t have a sensitivity as I might feel if there is a beautiful girl. I might think how nice it would be to go to bed with her. I don’t try to say”
