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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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Restart / reset
Home. Weather warm and damp by local standards, but rather cool compared to the hot day in Zürich I just left. Recovery from packing, airport, plane – and I do know that this wasn't a difficult trip. After all I wasn't traveling to Asia, or using one of the painfully brutal American arilines, or doing…
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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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Paul Attinello 