Strength in numbers? Quite the opposite.

Bartleby

It's interesting that after identifying a particular process, the next step you take is to examine not only its consequences, but what it means for the individual. Bartleby, with his singular self (if we can make that assumption), is 'better' than Jack's therapist. I read your essay to say that the difference here is categorical and instructive - Bartleby doesn't have a multiple self, and this is something to work for. The therapist, unable to deal with a certain stimuli has a fractured self, and we need to guard against becoming like him.