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  • Anniversary

    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

    … 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

    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

    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

    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…

  • Insight

    How unexpected – some of the events and understandings of the past two months – with those of the past five or six years, with those of the past thirty-one years, and even with those of the past fifty-seven years – seem to have turned a narrowly configured corner, one that leads from the the…

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