“When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.”

—  Rollo May , book Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 31

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US psychiatrist 1909–1994

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