The break is a break in nature; water from the rock. The natural order broken; the natural order is our construction, our constriction.

Freedom. Freud, the great emancipator, from the reality-principle. Free speech, free associations, random thoughts; spontaneous movements.

We stumble on the truth. The truth is always scandalous, a stumbling block; truth is where we stumble or fall down; in the rough ground, the anomalies not in the explanations. Search the scripture till you find a stumbling block; look for the slips of the tongue; the lapsus linguae, the fortunate falls. The truth is in the error. We slip out from under the reality-principle, into the truth; when the control breaks down. By great good fortune, gratis, by grace; and not by our own work or will.

Cf. Grant Letter and Spirit, 35,96 Benz Ecclesia Spiritualis , 37. Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations, 46.

Norman Brown Love’s Body (1966)