Minister Faust by From the Notebooks of Dr Brain (v4.0) (html)

Author:From the Notebooks of Dr Brain (v4.0) (html) [Brain, From the Notebooks of Dr]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-07-06T22:27:19+00:00

Achilles’ Real Heel Was His Whole Body

If you’re like Omnipotent Man, you may have spent much of your career, if not your life, hiding behind the fig leaf of your physical indestructibility. But having a diamond-hard body doesn’t guarantee you freedom from having a costume-jewelry soul, or that the gold of your mental health won’t oxidize into an unsightly green.

Achilles, the “invulnerable” hero of the Trojan War, was vulnerable supposedly because of his very mortal heel. But a cursory reading of The Iliad shows that Achilles maintained very weak interpersonal relationships and was frozen at a child’s stage of ego development, sulking in his tent even while war raged around him. Clearly, Achilles’ true vulnerability was actually his invulnerability, or what I call the Achilles Threefold Folly of Superior Ability.

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