In place of innocent bliss, the infant now experiences anxiety and guilt feelings. Also, as part of the child’s legacy is the sense of individual responsibility, and, most important of all, developing only later, the capacity to love. The “shadow” side of this process is the emergence of repressions and, concomitantly, neurosis. A fateful event indeed! If you call this the “fall of man,” you should join Hegel and other penetrating analysts of history who have proclaimed that it was a “fall upward”; for without this experience there would be neither creativity nor consciousness as we know them.
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🙂 in my words, the fall was inevitable. It was what we needed.
