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Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence. is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. Breathing is habit. Life is habit. Or rather life is a of habits, since the individual is a succession of individuals; the world being a projection of the ’s consciousness (an objectivation of the individual’s will, Schopenhauer would say), the pact be continually renewed, the letter of safe-conduct brought up to date. The creation of the world did take place once and for all time, but takes place every day. Habit then is the generic term for the treaties concluded between the countless subjects that constitute the individual and their correlative objects. The periods of transition that separate consecutive adaptations (because by expedient of macabre transubstantiation can the grave-sheets serve as swaddling-clothes) represent the zones in the life of the individual, dangerous, precarious, painful, mysterious and fertile, when for moment the boredom of living is replaced by the suffering of being.
Dewsbury et al. (Mon,) studied this question.