This is a recurring theme in Anais Nin's diary writing - to rid the world of war and greed, each person must work on their own hostility, prejudice, and distortion of others because this is where hatred, and ultimately war, begin. This is the only solution.
She attempts to describe similar themes in her novelettes by focusing on neurosis and a world of blurred vision and broken connections that create drama and elusive problems. She believes there is neurosis in each of us, and if we become aware of our collective neurosis, talk about it, explore it, we will bring back into the world the alienated ones. With this awareness, we will be able to feel the poverty and hunger of others, and we will evolve and progress as caring human beings. Without the awareness, we are neurotic, self-centered, self-contained, blind to the problems and others and the world because we are stuck in our own dramas and depressions.
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