Nev's 'good boy because you were quiet' example: the child is praised for silence only because stressed, dysregulated parents wanted peace. The clip is also used as the episode's cold open.
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Tonight at the Magic Theater, for madmen only, price of admittance, your mind, not for everybody.
You would be checked and blinded by it at every turn by what you are pleased to call your personality.
An integrated person is not a person who simply eliminated the sense of guilt or the sense of anxiety from his life. He's a person who feels all these things but has no recrimination against himself for feeling them.
Everything was unchanged... and at the same time everything had changed.
Nothing in this life should be taken at face value.
When you find out your existential kink and everyone's existential kink, it's no longer dark. It becomes fun. You can play with it because now you see yourself and you're not owned by that shadow any longer.