3In their angry alliances, born of fear of loneliness and yet dedicated to the continuance of loneliness, they seek relief from guilt by increasing it in the other. 4For they believe that this decreases it in them. 5The other seems always to be attacking and wounding them, perhaps in little ways, perhaps “unconsciously,” yet never without demand of sacrifice. 6The fury of those joined at the ego’s altar far exceeds your awareness of it.
