Paul Attinello

Category: Psychology

  • Adjudication

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    At home, after nearly a month in Zürich, six interviews to become a student at the Jung-Institut, and working out a detailed chart of requirements and expenses to complete their degree program… oh, and today was Gay Pride in Newcastle; fun and full of friends, if extremely wet/rainy/muddy. Followed by Skype contact with the Greek…

  • Lingue

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    A good day at the Jung-Institut – the middle one of three hot days. Tess's writing seminar was very good – why in fact doesn't she do this for four hours a day for three weeks? that would work – and when people chose to read their work it included a man with a beautiful…

  • As in a dream

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    Küsnacht/Zürich: classes, seminars, meetings. Although everything is very organized and conscious, especially the way I do it (iPad at the ready, taking many notes and tracking various things to do), we sometimes mention to each other that there is something strangely aware and resonant about things – we may dream more, we all get into…

  • Zürich, noch einmal

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    I've been here in Zürich for a bit over a day now… a small apartment up in Asylstraße (Asylum Street – yeah yeah very funny I know). Very, very pleasant to have a small apartment, as opposed to the small hotel rooms without baths or kitchens I've taken for the past two years – and…

  • A dream figure

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    A disturbing dream image from last week, that I discussed with my analyst today: in a chain of three dreams that conjured buildings, city streets, and figures of cryptic support, encouragement and change, an eerie version of Buffy the vampire slayer crashes into an otherwise benevolent continuity – where she seems so dangerous, so easily…

  • Damaged house

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    The middle of the night. Jung on Nietzsche, speaking of the problem of creativity and how one falls into inflation – as soon as you look back at what you've done with pompous satisfaction – I am the one who did that! – and so the creative moment dies and you fall into a false…

  • Nietzschean

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    (Hmm, when would I last have had to check the spelling of that word, two or three times just to make sure – even though I am now sure it always frets at me a bit. But not as much as it used to.) Full moon, lunar eclipse, solar equinox, near Christmas. After a few…

  • Deliberate crises

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    Lately there is a strange sense of a kind of semi-ordered chaos: as I am by turns angry and disoriented, or surprisingly pleased, or overwhelmed, or insulting, or reasonable, it seems as though I have been pushed (or: as though I have pushed myself?) into this psychological place. The physical/real-world explanations are obvious: months of…

  • Formal analysis of current status of complex

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    (As musicians, we are accustomed to formal analyses that don't emphasize the contents/material of what is analyzed. Herein a therefore relatively abstract reiteration of some of my understanding of the past 24 hours.) Recently understood aspects of complex formation suggest modification of my own emotional self-analysis: (1) von Franz clarifies the basic structure of complexes…

  • Hotel, party, graveyard

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    In Küsnacht, at the end of the second of three endlessly busy weeks studying at the Jung-Institut. Sixty-five pages of typed, single-spaced notes (I am not obsessive-compulsive, and can prove it with a handy alphabetized chart); three or four trips, some great meals and some ludicrously bad ones, a vast array of lectures, seminars and…