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“transformation” rather than the narrow one of “reform.” This proposition might be strengthened by referring to a statement made above. Man, as long as he has not reached the creative relatedness of which satori is the fullest achievement, at best compensates for inherent potential depression by routine, idolatry, destructiveness, greed for property or fame, etc. When any of these compensations break down, his sanity is threatened. The cure of the potential insanity lies only in the change in attitude from split and alienation to the creative, immediate grasp of and response to the world. If psychoanalysis can help in this way, it can help to achieve true mental health; if it cannot, it will only help to improve compensatory mechanisms.
Notes
2. D.T. Suzuki, Erich Fromm, and Richard De Martino, Zen Buddhism &
Psychoanalysis (New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1963), pp. 134-136. 3. Ibid., pp. 136-138.
1. See Appendix IV.