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… the purpose of playing, was and is, to hold as ‘twere, the mirror up to nature,
—Shakespeare, Hamlet
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Freud, “Recommendations to Physicians Practising Psycho-Analysis”
… both tragic drama and the best of psychoanalytic thinking are so rich that there is a mutual enhancement, a two-way dialogue.
—Bennett Simon, Tragic Drama and the Family
The softness of the boundary between inside and outside is a universal characteristic of living systems.
—Lewontin, The Triple Helix