The Paradisal Nature of Suicidal Thoughts

It's perfectly reasonable and respectable for people who were caught in a crisis to look back to the time prior to that crisis with longing, says iliadis. And wouldn't it be ever so great if we could only return to that condition of unself consciousness and make all our problems go away? "This kind of pathological paradisal reminiscence manifesting itself in the most bannal forms of conservatism," he adds.