The person with a divided self suffers from what James calls "world sickness".
In the divided Slavenas family, from what I could gather, Brian, the last born, played the role often associated with the first child — the dutiful child who tries to please his parents and keep the peace, the child who doesn't smoke or drink, the child who never gets into trouble.
Political pundits and policymakers are divided on everything from what ISIS is, to what their intentions are, who created them, where they will strike next, what to do with Assad in Syria, and even how to treat the refugees from Syria seeking asylum in Europe and America.
"There's no dividing this from what's going on in real life," said Ridley of American Crime to The Daily Beast.
The men are divided from the women.
But that the whole way of posing the question, of dividing the mind from what it's aware of, is fruitless.
Echoes of all these can be found in both texts—often, as we noted, as if the various contributors to the texts were divided on what follows from such a philosophical ascent to meta-critique.
Now doctors are clearly confused and divided over what to expect from estrogen.
Actually, a couple of — Actually, a good number of years ago, I had someone write a senior essay with me and he found a diary from roughly this period of a person whose family — he was from New England and I don't remember where he was from — his family divided over what to do.
Much as Britain is uncertain about its future relationship with Europe, so Europe is divided about what it wants from Britain.
