One may safely say, in a pseudo-scientific theorem: wheresoever ready rationalizations exist, thereunto a complex is being protected. Thus we are all, much of the time, prisoners of history, haunted by the spectral “instructions” that float up from the past to inform, color, dictate our choices in this new present. This moment is always new; it has never existed before, but we reflexively, repetitively bind our days, sometimes in moments of necessary continuity and sometimes in regressive obeisance to the past. Such is the power of complexes. | lit.salon