Anais Nin is still in New York, working as an analyst. She believes that analysis gives vision to the potential self, the self that can be developed after wisdom, insight, maturity and growth become un-stunted through analysis. She wants to help her patients to regain their appetite for life, to fall in love with life, as she has done. Part of this process involves accepting the fact that some compromises must be made, some adjustment is necessary in order to be truly happy and content; otherwise, there is a constant struggle against life. The alternative is to create something that equals what you imagine and live in the world of art, of creation.
This reminds me of a person who is in their twenties, full of hopes and dreams of what their life is going to be. As time goes on, suddenly they are in their thirties, and things may not quite have turned out as they imagined. This is when they make adjustments to their thinking and/or to their plan, or they keep hoping and dreaming and being optimistic, or they become depressed and ready to throw in the towel, wondering what has gone wrong in their life. I've seen a little of all of these attitudes in my own life.
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