“Violence is the daimonic gone awry.”

— Rollo May, book Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 130
Context: Violence is the daimonic gone awry. It is "demon possession" in its starkest form. Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

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US psychiatrist 1909–1994

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