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THE ESSENTIAL PARADOX IN SULLIVAN which Dr. Klenbort discusses in depth is repeated in the above title.
In delving into why Sullivan needed to maintain this opposition in his Interpersonal Theory, Klenbort finds that he tended in his writings to equate uniqueness, creativity, richness of language and insight with primitivity, autism, aloneness and with something bordering on, or leading to madness.
She also finds many inconsistencies in Sullivan with regard to his opposition between humanness and uniqueness. For example, he speaks of the total personality, consisting of the waking self, presumably the self-system; the period spent in sleep; and the part of