Only thing interesting that I gathered from this chapter is about how Pyschoanalysis provides us with aspect-seeing metaphors and how These are metaphors that allow us new ways of looking at and thinking about ourselves. Psychoanalytical analysis cannot be tested right or wrong.
By contributing evil to a personality and mental disorder, Rowlands posits that we cannot achieve meaning in our lives by pitting ourselves against evil anymore, not in this modern world.
But I think this is a commendable point of view that should not be taken too far. By offering help to the "evil", we distinguish what a person is and does from his true nature. Deep down, everyone is "fixable" and can be restored to the order that Plato prescribes (of Reason, Spirit and Appetite).
Of which, Tony Soprano is not. He is evil because according to Plato's view, his order is not in the correct form. Thus he is fractured and he has to put on different faces and accomodate conflicting actions in conflicting situations.
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