When someone is the object of another’s neurosis, or on other words whey they become the projection, that person is not seen in their true identity, because the evil one does not want to see the person for what that person is, for what that person wants to be. When people project their experiences onto others they don’t want them to live–in their diversity, complexity, autonomy, or authenticity. Inside itself the evil person erases the identity of the other. Only like this, not knowing and negating the person, can evil see in the other what it wants–its own ghosts, demons, and perversions. Neurosis, under the form of evil, not only hinders us from truly knowing others in their uniqueness and irrepeatability, not only hinders a true friendship with the other, but transforms –in its crazy mind– the other into its own image and likeness. “You are what I want you to be.” Neurosis, like evil, wants to destroy life and goodness and passion and vocation. Because it envies them. Because it cannot possess them. (Taken from LIBERI DI AMARI due out this spring in Italian bookstores.)