A D Journal 1986

    His name is George. He is one of those ethical men who believes the world is essentially a wholesome place where people live and love and go on with their lives for the most part without real scandal. But as Dr. Thomas often points out, the unconscious world is a vicious place where our worst aspects get played out and tends to reflect the actuality of the waking world. Yes, George is a good man, full of integrity and class, living his life the way most people would assume middle class people should. He reminds me of Dan (or Wild Bill as he likes to be called), tall, quiet, with an intense passion for justice. He is the kind of man most often abused by both sides of the political spectrum. Dan, of course, has dark hair and claims to be trapped in his second marriage, stuck with child support for his two kids, and an enduring sense of guilt over having married at all, where as George is single with dirty blonde hair, girls extremely attracted to him. Both ...

    Bob is rigid as hell, but also loyal, a good talker, but utterly passive, and most certainly incompetent at times. He is in constant conflict with himself, his emotional side at war with his intellectual side, his mind always struggling to rein in his emotions, which may explain why he has ulcers. The son of a career military man and a self-professed conservative, Bob struggles to live up to his capitalistic ideals. He is rightfully critical of a welfare state that keeps poor people enslaved, and yet can’t quite justify the greed upon which capitalism depends. All people rich or poor are selfish, even the ones who claim to be fighting for social justice. The question Bob keeps raising, which greed is more productive, the socialist model that sucks money out of people who work for a living, or the capitalistic model that on some levels creates jobs and additional wealth? Nobody has a good answer for this, not even Bob, who seems to dislike “the do-gooders” who...