Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction.... : Quote by Jonathan Shay

“ Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own character would not have stood firm. ”

Jonathan Shay
  • From : Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
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