Category: Psychology
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Spring
And finally, here it is, what we've been waiting for. Nearly a week after Easter (and apparently this year Roman Easter and Greek Easter were the same day, which is in itself a fairly weird result of changing calendars and seasons). A young father, slightly anxious-looking but in a light t-shirt, walks with a child…
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Making
A tutorial with a smart but thus far undisciplined masters student, where I was quite definite about the draft paper he'd sent me – I thought it was chaotic and touched on an unmanageable array of topics, and said so. Fortunately he didn't seem to mind, and went home to rewrite the whole thing (not…
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Dying / not-dying
Feeling well today. Then feeling very tired, so went and laid down. Then well again. And talking to Alfred, who has more success and fame than I ever will, and who is thirteen years older. After having been treated yesterday by Jambo, my acupuncturist, who is twenty-eight, full of life and presence and direction. I…
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Adorno’s Dreams
After last night's brave and admittedly somewhat demented post – not that I discount its ideas and feelings: I think I really could crack my behavior, my limitations, open, if I had the energy and courage, which I may yet be able to find – I put myself together today to go to the pharmacy…
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Clarity
I wrote a long, detailed e-mail to my department at work, explaining what happened, etc. I tend to be pretty open about medical concerns (which may be one reason I don't seem to get job interviews, who knows). Then I thought I should do the same for my family, and tried to re-use parts of…
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Hilarity
Marie-Louise von Franz on the puer aeternus… I'm reading it because my new analyst mentioned it to me, rather pointedly. The book is a bit embarrassing, because it is too much on the mark in many places. However, it is also brilliant, fascinating, intelligent as she always is. (Was: I would have loved to have…
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Strategic retreat
I won't send in my application today for the Jung-Institut; the finances are just too uncertain. I suppose I'm trying to actually take the intelligent (!) advice I gave David R.: to not be too hasty to advance on a new path if the resources aren't ready yet. It's a bit frustrating, and I feel…
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After Küsnacht
So: I am back from a week in Küsnacht, a posh southern suburb of Zürich right on the Zürichsee (where, as it happens, Tina Turner lives – and no, I didn't see her), where I studied at the Jung-Institut for a week… It was good; some of it was great. And yes, I'd like to…
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Psychologists
Over the past two or three months, since having the idea of studying to become an analyst, I read certain things differently – writings that include some reference to therapy, psychology, dreams, etc. have become much denser and more interesting. Because, I suppose, I am no longer interested only when those writings seem to directly…
Paul Attinello 