What does Spinoza say in his Ethics?
—“Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam.”
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
The prisoner who had lost faith in the future—his future—was doomed.
With his loss of belief in the future, he also lost his spiritual hold;
he let himself decline and became subject to mental and physical decay.
Usually this happened quite suddenly, in the form of a crisis, the symptoms of which were familiar to the experienced camp inmate.
We all feared this moment—not for ourselves, which would have been pointless, but for our friends.
Usually it began with the prisoner refusing one morning to get dressed and wash or to go out on the parade grounds.
No entreaties, no blows, no threats had any effect.
He just lay there, hardly moving. If this crisis was brought about by an illness,
he refused to be taken to the sick-bay or to do anything to help himself.
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