A Friend, Not An Enemy

We need to reverse the polarity of our despair, W. says. To change its direction. To transmute it into hope.

He remembers what Wittgenstein said about madness. 'It comes to you perhaps as a friend and not as an enemy, and the only thing that is bad is your resistance'.

We will have to plunge more deeply into our despair, W. says. To experience it.