As soon as Anais Nin returns to New York from her vacation in Acapulco, the peace and tranquility she felt are erased. She is reminded of her need to be a writer and her failure to be accepted as a serious writer. She rereads her own work and is still proud of it and still has faith in it; she cannot understand why others don't get it.
In a letter to Maxwell Geismar, she elaborates on the purpose of her work: "I am continuing the work of Freud, which I believe more valuable than the work of Marx." Freud knew the source of evil and war and was attacking it at its inception, she believes. "Our failures (wars, racial prejudice, greed, corruption) prove the error of Marxism," she says. "I want to change human beings at the source. That means psychological deep-sea diving," she continues.
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