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Postscript: the flavor of memory
There is something about my previous blog entry – which was drafted toward the end of a two-week trip in August, then left unfinished for five or six weeks, then finally published in a rather unbalanced sketch form – that continues in my head…. Copenhagen, Allen, Berlin, Hans-Friedrich. Tivoli, bookstores, Alexanderplatz, the big apartment…. Rostock,…
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Cities, days: back in August…
So… after my summer was partly derailed by Jung-Institut exams, then the flu and a month of its aftermath – I chose to travel to København (Copenhagen, to you in the back) for my first-ever conference of IAAP, the international Jungian organization; but Stockhom first, for fun, with Annick; and then Manchester, for Pride weekend.…
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A walk
The last warm day. A very pleasant day – there has been a lot of beautiful, true-summer weather in this part of the North Sea for the last two months. Michael and I met in town, brief Italian dinner, long walk down to the river and up through the Ouseburn to home. ••• In June…
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[Panic / anger / calm: shifting grounds]
[a] Friday. I am upset. No, that's not quite true: I am not pleased, but… it is as though the negative emotions are at least partly in brackets. I can see myself panicking a bit, angry and disoriented – but, perhaps because this is how psychoanalysis can work, the emotions are understandable but don't quite…
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Vision
Not much to say here… four days of an intermittently really nasty cold, and cold medicines (stopped taking them a day ago). (If someone sneezes in a room where you are, leave immediately, then text them with a made-up appointment – you absolutely don't want to get this one.) And the last day or so…
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First-world problems
I understand the joke, 'first-world problems' – it's what we say when the refrigerator breaks or our flight is delayed. The sense is that we are rich and expect everything to be easy, and that our biggest problems are details, minor frustrations, compared with those in other parts of the world. Especially when several other…
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Paul Attinello 