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Dear Mr Tuckett,
For my own self respect I must put on record while I'm still alive that I have at last seen a different side of the delusion of Basic Unity, when it is not discarded, but retained as absolute truth.
'The greatest evil in the world stems from the belief that you are right; that no matter what you do God is with you … there must always be room for reasonable doubt' (quotation from a novel The Taking of Agnes by Jennifer Potter, Cape, 1985). This belief falls short of one that we find in many psychotic patients, 'I am God'.
The holders of either are not amenable to analysis though they may seek it, sometimes from one analyst after another. Two sought it from me, each having an analyst in many cities.
I will add another quotation: In a letter to William Smith dated 9 January 1795, Edmund Burke wrote 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing'.
From Procrustes, in the name of Moses, Mohammed, Christ, St Paul to Hitler, Marx, Lenin, Stalin etc. this has been seen in all sorts of aspects; at its worst bringing racism, religious wars, destruction, concentration camps, Apartheid, fundamentalism, and so forth.
This is of particular importance now in view of the present state of the world in general. The break up of the Communist Soviet bloc, the rise of Islam etc. It is very complex, as like everything else in human life, it is at least two sided; good often comes out of evil, and evil out of good.
I am no longer able myself to develop this, but I hope that I am not alone in this recognition and that others will develop it.
Yours sincerely,