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Highly neurotic persons are particularly eager to find a guru (or an analyst), as he or she affords an opportunity to enter into an intimate mental-emotional relationship centered round the neurotic's ego, thus feeding it still more. But the food here is "spiritual." Quite clearly philosophy, throwing the burden of self-salvation on their own shoulders, would be distasteful.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 4 : Healers of The Body and Mind > # 88