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The Great Tension of All Revolutionaries
Many of the details in sterne's account would be familiar to students of the revolutionary mentality and earlier epochs. Her preoccupation with the state of her psychic health, together with her dependence on others for a sense of selfhood, distinguished susan stern from the kind of religious seeker who turns to politics to find a secularized salvation. She needed to establish an identity, not to submerge her identity in a larger cause. This was at the core of the temptations of christ in the gospel story i mentioned earlier.