What Is to Be Done

Abstract

The'monuments and memorials with which large cities are adorned are. . . mnemic symbols. . .NotfarfromLondonBridgeyou will find a towering and more modern column, which is simply known as 'The Monument' . It was designed as a memorial of the Great Fire, which broke out in that neighborhood in 1666 and destroyed a large part of the city . . . [W]hat shouldwe think of a Londonerwhoshed tears before the Monument that commemorates the reductionofhis belovedmetropolis to ashesalthough it has long since risen again in far greater brilliance? . . . Yet every single hysteric and neurotic behaves like [this] unpractical Londoner. Not only do they remember painful experiences of the remote past, but they still clingto them emotionally; theycannotget free of the past and for its sake they neglect what is real and immediate . Mark Lewis