From [[Living Between Worlds]]: > The word neurosis arose in Scotland in the 1790s, amid the emergence of the machine age, when a physician named William Cullen speculated that our emotional disturbances derive from flaws or impediments in the neurological “machine” that we are. To understand that machine is to find how to fix the flaws. Later, other emerging metaphors replaced this image. In the late twentieth century, for example, American psychologist James Hillman saw the battle of the gods decided in favor of the great god “Economics.” More people’s lives, values, choices, and energies offered service to this demanding god than to any other value. As a treatment plan for the vast absences in our spiritual life, the modernist treatment plan is especially driven by the stepchild of the god Economics, named “Materialism.” When life gets difficult, go shopping. Until they were replaced by the ease of internet shopping, vast, brightly lit malls were temples drawing the faithful.