The Science of Living

self-and-identity

• The prototype is the unripe fruit—if there is a worm, the more it develops and ripens the larger the worm grows.

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• In his style of life he was a conqueror who had attained the goal of superiority, even while consciously tending toward suicide.

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ambition-and-status

• Oldest children often hold a conservative view: those in power should remain in power. The second child always wants to equal the first.

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• The suicide is a sort of revenge—an accusation against society, the youth affirming himself via private intelligence instead of common sense.

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belonging

• He never speaks a word about it at home because he feels ashamed—a child standing alone in a very hostile atmosphere.

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• He always has the expectation that another person will be preferred—and so he cannot speak in society or sustain friendship.

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