a man born blind. at age 53 he had surgery to restore his sight. the case history reveals a blind man who was active and extroverted who, after gaining vision, became bored and severely depressed. three years after the operation he died. when abundance itself becomes deprivation there are cases where a patient who finds the reality of continuous spectacle too painful copes by having a 'conversion reaction' that psychologically causes blindness, but without any physical impairment of the eyesight 'we are no longer seeing each other' we are blind to our body's interior (first wrote 'idterior'), only trauma exposes our innards to light next