Posted by Sigismund on November 15, 2009, at 16:45:41
In reply to Re: radical psychotherapy and the schizoid condition » Sigismund, posted by IntendedMispelling on November 15, 2009, at 6:54:48
From Uncle Vanya with lots left out.
Sonya is speaking...Uncle Vanya, did you take the morphine?
Give it back. Why do you frighten us. Give it back, Uncle Vanya! I may be no less unhappy than you, but I don't become desperate. I endure and will endure until my life comes to a natural end .... you must endure.
We shall live, Uncle Vanya. We shall live out many days and long evenings; we shall patiently bear the trials fate sends us; we shall labour for others both now and in our old age, knowing no rest and when our time comes we shall meekly die, and there beyond the grave we shall say we have suffered, that we wept, that we were sorrowful, and God will have pity on us, and you and I, dear Uncle shall see a life that is bright and beautiful and full of tenderness with a smile - and we shall rest. I believe that, Uncle, I believe that passionately. We shall rest.
We shall rest. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the whole sky paved with diamonds, we shall see all earthly evil, all our sufferings covered by a sea of mercy which shall fill the whole earth, and our life will become quiet, tender, sweet as a caress. I believe, I believe. Poor Uncle Vanya, you're crying. You've known no joys in your life, but wait, Uncle Vanya, wait ...we shall rest ....we shall rest.
I don't believe a word of it (you don't need to with Chekhov) but it's nice to hear someone say it.
It hasn't much to do with anti-psychiatry....I'm just reading it at the moment.
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