At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal.

and Victor A. The Thanatos Syndrome. A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy.

Percy is known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans Louisiana the first of which The Moviegoer won the U. S. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age.