The Human Depths
4 min readApr 28, 2024
Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
– Haruki Marukami
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My interest in Sade became serious shortly after I began practicing psychotherapy. Well-intentioned, upright, high-minded people would present dreams and fantasies filled with exquisite torture, murder, sexual perversion, and graphic scatology. They were disturbed by these dreams and assumed…