Category: Awareness
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Men in autumn • fragments • a flash
I haven’t written here for a while… somewhat preoccupied, fairly busy. Walking through what feels like several lives at once: the university (with various changes in upper-level policy – an annoying time for British universities, as upper-level business savages try to extend control over non-business systems), my analysands (and another new one, and new chairs…
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Trains • Perelandra • Complex
[Fragments from several days, several locations. A certain connectedness – but be ready for jumps in continuity: like a student film.] A lot of train trips the past few months: my analyst lives (fortunately very near the train station) in Leicester, about three and a half hours away… my 'local' supervisor in York (i.e. closer…
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Masterworks
Before I leave Switzerland behind – the next to last night in Küsnacht, some people who were about to graduate (= who have now graduated) from the Jung-Institut told us about their dissertation topics. I took substantial notes on at least four, because frankly – and yes, I did indeed say this out loud afterwards…
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relatively quiet – continuing developments
A calm day – mild rain since last night, Zürich is cooling off after a sunny week. The hourly church bells – they have seemed remarkably reassuring for the past few days; perhaps I am getting accustomed to them. After, of course, several years – have I really been coming here, however irregularly, since 2009?…
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Miseries
Yesterday I went to Leicester for psychoanalysis… unfortunately started to feel a bit off while getting to the train; suggesting IBS, or something very like it. By the time I arrived, three hours later… My analyst is fortunately a psychiatrist, so can write prescriptions; he kindly wrote a prescription and drove me around until we…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Paul Attinello 