Youth : gilded or loaded? (jeunesse dorée ou bourrée?)
By Luis de la Sierra.
1 Jul, 2007
Summary:
The way in which some adolescents deal with their feelings is what concerns me today and for my presentation I have selected individuals who, among the many different ways of attempting to deal with painful feelings, often replace them with the sensations provoked by virtue of pharmacological intoxication.
In Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincey (1890) writes:
I hanker too much after a state of happiness both myself and others; I cannot face misery, whether my own or not, with an eye of sufficient firmness; and am little capable of surmounting present pain for the sake of any recessionary benefit.
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