Blessed are they that mourn: For they shall be comforted.

It could be said that the principal function of human psychology is to come to terms with human biology. With each generation, we begin our careers in the uterine environment, one optimally protected by a loving yet imperfect familial and social environment. Initially, the mother's body, the social topography of kin and neighbors, the animate and inanimate physical environment, are not experienced as distinct objects in the world with a life and needs of their own: they are the world. They are one's earliest psychogeography. One experiences them as though they were an intrinsic, even if distal, part