Zapffe

He remained married to his second wife Berit Zapffe until his death in 1990.

In The Last Messiah Zapffe described four principal defense mechanisms that humankind uses to avoid facing this paradox: *Isolation is "a fully arbitrary dismissal from consciousness of all disturbing and destructive thought and feeling".

Personal life Zapffe married twice.

Zapffe himself pointed out that his produced works were the product of sublimation.

Zapffe, Peter Wessel, citation Distraction focuses all of one's energy on a task or idea to prevent the mind from turning in on itself.

Zapffe remarked that children are brought into the world without consent or forethought: In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world.

Zapffe was a prolific mountaineer and took a very early interest in environmentalism.