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Nothing is here for tears; nothing to wail
Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt,
Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair,
And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
The patients, for the treatment of whom I wish to formulate theories, experience pain but not suffering. They may be suffering in the eyes of the analyst because the analyst can, and indeed must, suffer. The patient may say he suffers but this is only because he does not know what suffering is and mistakes feeling pain for suffering it.
The plays of Sophocles became available in print in the Western world in the sixteenth century, and their influence on English literature must be inestimable. Although Shakespeare is said not to have read Sophocles himself, it is hard to believe that the author