I treated thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his view, thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air, and added, “If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.”

There are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life. Things which I had not consciously thought.

I understood that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend, things which may even be directed against me.