Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend, by Otto ...

Nostalgia is wishing to be a child (that is: viewing one’s own sins as a misfortune
inflicted by others, which the criminal never does, who always feels himself guilty).
Space is related to chaos; its essence is in the setting of distance (sickness and
aloneness are related), the three dimensions fly apart from each other, space has no
unity, it is the collectivity of all externalised-ness of sensation, the entire I as the
unconscious.
Where unity of consciousness is absent, as with the criminal, solitude is absent
(“The I senses its own self,” Rappaport), the sense of time is absent (because the
various fragments of the ego, the unreal, nothing, are set as real, realised).
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The saint (that is the inverse of the criminal, Christ, Augustine, Kant) suffers most
heavily from the problem of time. The Greeks know no saints, which is why they
know no problem of time.
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Nature is immoral when man dissolves himself into nature, becomes animal, plant,
matter, nothing, just as it is thus unconscious. Nature is moral, ethical, aesthetic as
soon as it is known, that is: held together. Then a sense for nature is possible.
The criminal dies from inside (time), the sick person from outside (space).
Epilepsy must also be connected with time.
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