Rank said: “Hurt him. You will deliver him from his sense of guilt towards you by hurting him. Then he will feel delivered because he will have been punished. Abandon him as he abandoned you. Revenge is necessary to reestablish equilibrium. There is a law of equilibrium in emotional life. It rules us deep down. It is at the root of Greek tragedies.” “But I have to do those things in my own way, always.”
