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Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon, Frederic Leighton 

At this point in your exploration you have seen the effect your youthful conclusions have made on your life.

a) As you consider the many occasions in your early life when your problem played itself out, can you say what its origin was? Can you say what or who often started it off?

b) Would you say that those responsible for the problem felt they were justified in what they did?

c) If this is so, would it not be that some member of the family, or an authority, felt justified in taking some course of action against you, or others? And, what was their justification?

d) Indeed, if there was some reason that generated the problem's existence, is it not likely that it was some kind of violation of one of your family's laws, or some rule of the house that was challenged? Please explain what law, or principle, was violated in your case.

e) In other circumstances you could have witnessed an event in which you played a minor role and yet no family law or rule was necessarily broken. However, you may have felt it was a basic violation of what was right or fair. In either case, would you agree that those who play a role in the problem-event suffer from some sense of injustice having been done either to them, or to another? Please describe that injustice.

f) And, is there not some feeling that when one witnesses injustice there must be some act of vindication or revenge to make things just and so resolve the injustice? Please explain.

g) And then, if it cannot be resolved, it is left undone and it remains on our mind and so, what do we do?

We promise ourselves we will deal with the insult at some later time and so, for the time being, we brood, plan, and suffer in silence.

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