The path beyond anger is formulation. By formulation I do not mean
detached theories about the atomic bomb, but rather the process by
which the hibakusha re-creates himself--establishes those inner forms
which can serve as a bridge between self and world. Ideology and "world
view"--often in their unconscious components--are central to the
process, and by studying their relationship to A-bomb mastery, we gain a
sense of their significance for mental life in general. Formulation
includes efforts to re-establish three essential elements of psychic func-
tion: the sense of connection, of organic relationship to the people as well
as non-human elements in one's life space, whether immediate or
distant and imagined; the sense of symbolic integrity, of the cohesion
and significance of one's life, here including some form of transcendence
of the A-bomb experience; and the sense of movement, of development
and change, in the continuous struggle between fixed identity and
individuation. ¹ Conflicts we have discussed over issues of trust and
peace, as well as struggles with residual anger, are part of the "psycho-
logical work" involved. And the internal "A-bomb philosophy" which
results--the imagery of formulation--not only enhances mastery but, in
an important sense, contains the mental representation of mastery or its
absence.

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