« Despite the great public echo, the success and the Nobel Prize, the Hermann Hesse of middle age suffered from this tragic dissociation from his true Self that doctors call depression. »

« Despite the great public echo, the success and the Nobel Prize, the Hermann Hesse of middle age suffered from this tragic dissociation from his true Self that doctors call depression. »

« It is common for a child's gifts (intensity of feelings, depth of sensitivity, curiosity, intelligence, and awakened mind, which naturally are accompanied by a critical sense) to confront his parents with conflicts which they have long sought to defend themselves with great reinforcement of rules and precepts. Also these precepts must)they be saved at the cost of child development. And we end up with this seemingly paradoxical situation; parents who are proud of their gifted child, and even admire him, are driven by their own distress to repel, bully, even destroy, precisely what is best in him, because more authentic. »