2016, Number 2
Salud Mental 2016; 39 (2)
Oliver Sacks: In memoriam
Estañol B, Borgstein J
Language: English
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Page: 59-60
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When a man dies no one can substitute him. He is dead, and no one can think or feel or write about what he saw, felt or thought, because that person was unique and no one saw the world quite like him. The tragedy is worse when that person had created a vision of the world than no one had conceived before him. A neurologist is a human being who, by force of circumstance, is used to seeing the tragedy of many patients. He frequently sees a world that is uncertain and full of pain.What are the consequences of these premises? The uncertainty of the world is the origin of religion and philosophy and is the main cause of ontological anxiety.