/lit/ - Literature

"But if I am to truly understand Christ, I must realize how Christ actually lived only his own life, and imitated no one. He did not emulate any model.

If I thus truly imitate Christ, I do not imitate anyone, I emulate no one, but go my own way, and I will also no longer call myself a Christian. Initially, I wanted to emulate and imitate Christ by living my life, while observing his precepts. A voice in me protested against this and wanted to remind me that my time also had its prophets who struggle against the yoke with which the past burdens us. I did not succeed in uniting Christ with the prophets of this time. The one demands bearing, the other discarding; the one commands submission, the other the will. How should I think of this contradiction without doing injustice to the either? What I could not conjoin in my mind probably lends itself to living one after the other."

Carl Jung. The Red Book: A Reader's Edition. p. 332.

What writers or novels give the impression of being emotionless or a stone-cold psychopath in the making?