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Charged
Of course I still have had doubts at times about training (I didn't use the word 'studying' this time) at the Jung-Institut. Will I be inept and self-centered as an analyst, is it too late to bother starting a new career, is this all just another self-sustaining belief system…. But in the past week, there…
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Splitting, integration, symbolization
Having passed my remaining propaedeuticum exams in Zürich (which means: I passed the eight theoretical exams that end the first half of study; there will be seven final exams in two or three years, but they will be based more on practical experience), I have been recovering… As we know (you in the back –…
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Moon with clouds
Between the summer solstice and a major full moon, hidden in Zürich by cloud… two exams survived, two to go, in the next two days. A feeling of being suspended, of waiting, of not moving. It occurs to me that I don't need to study here at the Jung-Institut. Which has occurred to me before,…
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Calm air
A flight to Zürich that was bizarrely quick and easy… Did you know that KLM doesn't even check passports a second time, while getting on the plane, any more? The American TSA must be absolutely furious. Swift, sunny, calm. Roggenbrot, Käse; quick laundry, buy food. Go through documents on computer, transfer to phone and iPad…
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Verge
In the last half hour before the taxi comes – to take me to the airport, to go to Zürich, to return to studies at the Jung-Institut for the first time in a year, to take the second half of my first-half exams (if you can follow that – is it easier if I say,…
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Could-be-other
A beautiful day. A list of things done. A meeting, minor enough. A couple of days ago, finishing up a preparatory paper for one of my upcoming exams, I realized I was tensing up enough to make myself uncomfortable, and in some actual pain – took a medication I had thought I didn't need any…
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