#pschoanalysis

[fiitjeebhubaneswar-blog]

FIITJEE Remembering #SigmundFreud on his Death Anniversary. Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the Founder of Modern #Pschoanalysis.

[byrichard]

CONVOLUTION

[fancyandtragic]

From Jung's Red Book, circa 1930.

[learningfromthehands-blog]

Mewling and bawling, we were all flung into this world, expelled from the earlier place - our home, solace, respite - and, being thus bound to a perilous journey, end in extinction. “Astride of a grave,” Samuel Beckett wrote, “with a forceps” coming or going, it is a rocketing, ratcheting, bracketing birth/death ride. Bewildered, traumatized, alone, we looked about and began to distinguish this from that, me from not-me, and thus the microscopic accretions of the promethean boon of consciousness - source of pain from knowledge of separation, privy to doubt, fear, and division, yet gift of awareness, ethical choice, and bright, necessary bauble of civilization.

Each of us, blood-bathed, shocked by light, gravity, cacophonous calamities, embark upon this fiercesome journey, fragile, frangible, and fearful. Batted about for decades - if the fates so decide - we recoil, make provisional sense of it all, and then succumb. Along the way we pass the time….

James Hollis, "What Matters Most"