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Responsibility (n.) reaches ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠into sleep only indirectly: we are not answerable for dream-wishes, yet we have a duty to cleanse our minds morally, especially before going to sleep.

Responsibility (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be the hidden subject of a dream: 'If you still get pains, it's your own fault' — if they were hers, they could not be mine.

Responsibility (n.) when ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠we feel its burden sends us back in dreams to Matriculation — real life's relentless causal chains have taken over from parents and schoolmasters.

Responsibility (n.) extends ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to the immorality of our dreams: it is ours to accept — and once the mind is understood, most of what offends in them disappears.

Responsibility (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the law frames it fits only a united self; the neurotic can be malingerer and ill at once.