3. "Before the second World War I believed in the
perfectability of social (...) I am thinking of the vileness
beyond all words that went on, year after year, in the
totalitarian states. (...) They were done (...) by men with
a tradition of civilisation behind them, to beings of their
own kind.” (John McClean)
4. “(...) we must reject the easy simplification that evil is
the manifestation of something animal or primitive. It
is in fact a complex human phenomenon.” (John
McClean)
6. “(...) object relations and any wish on the part of the
self to experience the need for an object and to
depend on it are devalued, and attacked and
destroyed with pleasure.” (John McClean)
9. “The nightmare is the infantile terror of being totally
unconnected with the parent, and at the mercy of the
external world and one’s internal phantasies.” (John
McClean)