The gods sold their wares at a good price: thirty silver coins could buy faith. Rising from the dead is a miracle, but miracles don't come so cheap. The girl who returned from the dead understood this all too well: if you think the world has gone mad, perhaps you're the one who fell ill first. So these notes on the mind, illness, and other things are not merely an attempt to describe the world, but also a way to heal myself.
Readers are recommended to have some or all of the following background knowledge:
1. The psychoanalytic tradition.
2. The tradition of German classical philosophy.
3. The phenomenological tradition.
4. Modern French thought.
5. The empiricist tradition.
6. The Austrian School.
7. Analytic philosophy.
8. Ethics and jurisprudence.
9. Other experience reading the history of philosophy.
10. Classic detective fiction.
