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Spring
And, distinctly strangely, after only three days, feeling much better… even, perhaps, better than most of the past seven months, since the first change in medications. (Honestly a bit bewildered by this… no sense of weakness at any point…) Yes of course, it is perhaps merely shifting biochemistry and mood… probably helped by cutting one…
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Haze
Two-thirds of the way through a twelve-week HCV treatment. Ordered in Chinese food, then the next day had a virus, fever, etc…. somebody sneezed, I suppose. Fairly wiped out for two days; in analysis (over the internet), an interesting focus – at one point my analyst points out that I speak of myself as a third…
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A comparison
So, our Jung-Institut online seminar is the first of its kind I think. (The Jung-Institut, being a bit more Swisss and old-fashioned than many Jungian organisations, has never been very tech-savvy; a running joke in the profession is that Jungians are perpetually inept in the world of technology – though this may apply to a combination of an older generation, plus…
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Easter
On the one hand, longer days, sunlight, a still-chilly and intermittent promise of spring. On the other HCV medications, confusions, changing demands, papers to write – Behind it all is still a greater calm, dreams that tend to move through anxiety to relief and resolution. Not an imagined change, clearly a real one… But no,…
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Aschenbach-moment
The past few months: there is a lot to say, and not much to say… I continue feeling weakened, sleepy, with problems centred on the new medications. I resolve them more successfully on some days, with various ancillary medicines, and not at all successfully on others. There was a point in early January when I awoke,…
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Getting there
Traveling… After the past couple of shaky months, and shakier weeks, and all of the activity around World AIDS Day, a trip for two conferences – a small conference on identity and music in Graz, and a larger one of Jungians doing politics, in Rome. How was it in general? – a lot of travel (Newcastle-Amsterdam, Amsterdam-Vienna,…
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Paul Attinello 