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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling (1905–1975), U.S. critic. Notebook entry, 1946. Partisan Review 50th Anniversary Edition, ed. William Philips (1985).

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