This feeling of injustice is something I have often heard from my patients during therapy. It is, in fact, what prompts them to file complaints, based on a misunderstanding: the illusion that human justice has the power to heal this wound, the nature of which it is wise to examine in depth.

We can think of Ajax who, disappointed at having been deprived of Achilles' weapons in favor of Ulysses, descends into furious madness and massacres a flock of sheep, believing them to be the leaders of the Greek army, before committing suicide when he regains his senses.