"Rank did not believe in going back. He felt the same drama would manifest itself in the present; all one needed to do was examine the present. So in the present I was experiencing a conflict between the openness of the young, their curiosity, exploration, receptivity, playfulness, nimbleness, as against the heavy, opaque, solid, immovable mass of maturity I meet at parties," Anais declares.
Japan surrenders, and Anais relates war in the world to hostility in the individual. "We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing agression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there." she says.
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