WHAT REMAINS WHEN YOU LEAVE
Inner Orientation After Emotional Entanglement
Volume 3 of the trilogy “The Anatomy of Power”
A trilogy about closeness, structures – and what remains
This trilogy does not describe perpetrators and does not establish diagnoses.
It follows an inner path – from the first quiet recognition, through the understanding of systems, to the moment in which one leaves inwardly without disappearing outwardly.
📘 Book 1: The Charming Smile of Evil
The beginning of recognition
- about closeness, charm and subtle shifts of boundaries
- about irritations that cannot easily be named
- about the first sense that something is not right
Book 1 opens the view to interpersonal dynamics that work quietly yet deeply – without alarm, without labels, but with growing inner awareness.
📙 Book 2: What Still Remains
When power becomes organised
- about structures, responsibilities and anonymous decisions
- about responsibility that dissolves
- about humanity that no longer finds space
Book 2 shifts the focus away from the individual and towards systems – to the places where closeness no longer changes anything and clarity begins to come at a cost.
📕 Book 3: What Remains When One Leaves
The moment after
Book 3 begins where much comes to an end – not with a rupture, not with an outcry, but with what follows.
- about leaving inwardly while outwardly everything continues
- about decisions that are not loud and yet change everything
- about clarity without struggle
- about distance without bitterness
This volume no longer directs its gaze at people, nor at structures, but at what remains within when external possibilities of influence are exhausted. When adaptation still functions but no longer sustains. When honesty has its price. When clarity finds no space – and yet remains necessary.
Book 3 does not seek closeness.
It creates inner order.
Not as analysis.
Not as explanation.
But as a measure by which one’s own experience can be placed more calmly, without losing oneself.
Many observations appear sober, some perhaps cool. This is not a lack of feeling, but protection. Feelings that find no place lose their direction – this book leaves them where they are, without directing them.
Book 3 is not a conclusion in the classical sense.
It is a stance.
One does what is necessary.
And leaves what no longer fits.
Without drama. Without bitterness. Without a claim to change.
✨ This trilogy is:
- a quiet orientation
- an inner measure
- a space for clarity
If something becomes calmer while reading, that is enough.
If something becomes clearer, so is that.
From the dark psychology series by Lichtinger.