Our ongoing experience of life, and how we tell and re-tell our own stories over time, usually involves increasing self-awareness, developing personal authenticity and expressing our unique identity, whilst continuing meaningful and purposeful engagement with the world and others.

That so many species are threatened, that the climate is out of control, that water is becoming a rare treasure – all of this is a by-product of ruthless competition between billionaire predators and that scientific progress is anarchically subservient to marketable technologies.

Repression, however, is an important achievement of humankind; we sublimate desires to achieve a more socially valued state of existence and it is civilisation that arises out of this.However, too much repression and we become sick..