¶ Psychiatry (3)
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Psychiatry:
"to be our fundamental faculties and proclivities. . . . And there was a game. . . there was something called life, and that’s the way life really is. . . really a game. And, knowing that my father died when I was very young, and my mother–I knew how much she loved me, that she sent me to the kind of school where she thought I would get something excellent in the way of education, but I was continually being told: ‘Never mind what you think!’ . . . So I simply made up my mind to try to give up and pay no attention to what I think . . . to give up all my sensitivities and put on an act, and I actually got to be very good at it.
“I confused my realities. When I was running and high-jumping, and so forth, I was really very true to whatever I am there. I was very true to myself in a ship at sea and I did very well in the Navy, but the naval officer was a game in itself. We had to be an officer. . . and I did very well in the Navy, did very well as a mechanic–because I didn’t have to make any money aboard ship. . . I didn’t have another game to be superimposed on it.”
¶ Citations
- Transcript (p.2) of RBF tape with Dr. Michael Bruwer, Ritz Carlton, Chicago; 20 Feb’77
