Paul Attinello

Author: paulattinello

  • Trains • Perelandra • Complex

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    [Fragments from several days, several locations. A certain connectedness – but be ready for jumps in continuity: like a student film.] A lot of train trips the past few months: my analyst lives (fortunately very near the train station) in Leicester, about three and a half hours away… my 'local' supervisor in York (i.e. closer…

  • Bologna – Train – Circeo

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    Five days in Bologna; with a vague idea of possibly living here some day… Or, well, perhaps not. There is a great deal of beauty in this town: the buildings, the food; the charming kindness of the two men who run the bed and breakfast that was suggested by some London friends. Of course there…

  • Masterworks

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    Before I leave Switzerland behind – the next to last night in Küsnacht, some people who were about to graduate (= who have now graduated) from the Jung-Institut told us about their dissertation topics. I took substantial notes on at least four, because frankly – and yes, I did indeed say this out loud afterwards…

  • relatively quiet – continuing developments

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    A calm day – mild rain since last night, Zürich is cooling off after a sunny week. The hourly church bells – they have seemed remarkably reassuring for the past few days; perhaps I am getting accustomed to them. After, of course, several years – have I really been coming here, however irregularly, since 2009?…

  • Miseries

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    Yesterday I went to Leicester for psychoanalysis… unfortunately started to feel a bit off while getting to the train; suggesting IBS, or something very like it. By the time I arrived, three hours later… My analyst is fortunately a psychiatrist, so can write prescriptions; he kindly wrote a prescription and drove me around until we…

  • Anniversary

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    My first blog post was dated 14 May 2006… good lord, eight years ago. 689 posts (including this one), therefore eighty-six or so per year – actually rather better than I thought. I experience this as – partly – a long-term narrative of moving from sadness, and a lot of retelling stories of the past,…

  • Meta-memory

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    … or meta-awareness… or something like that. There are a number of links in the chains of what is passing through my mind – reading Buddhist stories (especially Paul Reps' wonderful translations), working on a project nearly twenty years old, my own analysis sessions – and even the experiences  of working with my own analysands,…

  • The experience of fragments

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    I seem to be functioning in a very, as it were, multi-leveled way lately. Things that must be done – working as an analyst, teaching classes, observing classes, editing a volume, meetings, being in analysis, planning, conferences, Jung-Institut homework – even: vacuuming the apartment, buying groceries – are functioning in often brisk and sharpy outlined…

  • Correction / Amplification

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    An addendum to my previous post – because I don't want to be unfair to the theater company Propeller: • I assumed it was obvious in any case that my mood/attitude in that post affected by my judgment of their Comedy of Errors. (Plus my judgment of the play itself, which I still think is……

  • Shell games

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    The odd mood of the past few days – not a unique mood for me, but one that seems to be holding steady more than usual – is perhaps emphasized by the combination of having enough space to stay in that mood (it is our Easter holiday, I have a lot of work to do…