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Articles
Making Peace with Rattlesnakes
Excerpt: How do humans beings deal with the darker side of nature?...Our fantasies, attitudes and beliefs shape our relationships to other species and we can explore them for clues to our personal and collective experiences on Earth and perhaps elsewhere. But then what? What do we do with what we find out? Can we extend what we learn to the transformation of relationships with fellow human beings, and build new pathways to peace, to love, to cooperation and coordination?
Fighting Like Cats and Dogs
Excerpt: Of my four adopted pets--Miss Celie the Walker hound, and three cats: Buddy, George and Isis--Celie and George (I'm guessing) had the most traumatic pasts. Building a workable relationship with each of them has been a challenge, and with each other they enact the stereotypical dog-cat wars.…Compared to the Middle East, though, the situation in the holler seems more easily to morph toward healing.
MIA: America's Sense of Humor
Excerpt: Some years ago when I came into awareness of my spiritual Self and learned that each of us is a one-of-a-kind creation with a being and expression unlike any other, I posed this question: for what am I known in the universe? Immediately I received this phrase: sense of humor. In that new stage of spiritual awakening—which for me had also awakened a fair amount of leonine narcissism—I was disappointed, having expected something a little grander. Was this some kind of cosmic joke, I wondered?
Reading Harry Potter
Excerpt: Book review archives around the world hold at least a few snarling testimonies of critics who can't understand why anyone, especially adults, are wasting their time reading these books. What is it about these stories that generates such a strong desire to engage or protest? I believe that the lively responses―both positive and negative―suggest that Rowling's stories touch (or gouge!) readers deeply. In them we recognize, consciously or unconsciously, the most private, joyous and desperate experiences, feelings and fantasies of our being and our being-with-the-world, the same places that have been at the heart of psychoanalysis from the beginning.
To a guy with lots of soul...Happy Birthday, Siggy!
Excerpt: Events around the world will celebrate Freud's 150th birthday…and it will be a Freud bash of infinite variety.…I imagine that I'll spend more time today thinking about my relationship to psychoanalysis and its founder, and to my training as an analyst. When I began this journey my intention was to merge my spiritual path with this healing one. I couldn't have guessed they would converge in the brain…
Some Thoughts on Mental Organization, the Word, and the Leap of Faith from Couch to Culture
Excerpt: The arrival of neuroscience, evolutionary and developmental sciences on the psychoanalytic scene has livened things up a bit....We have additional levels of organization on which we can focus--neurotransmitters, neural networks, affective systems or neural correlates of consciousness itself--if we think that study will yield the greatest understanding of mental and emotional suffering. Can we welcome all disciplines to the psychoanalytic hunt yet stay alert to the evils of reification, deification, oversimplification or reduction?
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