Abstract
This chapter suggests how Romanticism figures this endless obstruction as one of the time's most potent ideological weapons. To reform the diversity of "Minds" into the universal "Mind of Man" is to unify multiple personalities into singular, coherent shape also inoculates "Man" against his "Mind" by syntactically and clinically separates them. Wordsworth seems compelled to rein in his 1805 version of The Prelude he calls "Reason in her most exalted mood" a feeling Reason or feeling of Reason. Persuasion in particular shows to accept happiness as real. The ideological affects and effects of happiness disclose and justify the pursuit of one's inner life as a form of social currency. This training of Romanticism's philosophic mind thus offers a template to make Romantic philosophy work differently. Schopenhauer posits an irreparable rift between the primary Wille and the secondary Darstellung of primordial force; separation leaves us perpetually dissatisfied with few alternatives.