Sublime

It is my hope that through an innovative partnership of spiritual wisdom and psychoanalytic science we may be able to initiate a new and effective “Fellowship of the True Ring” and a new kind of magi who, like Gandalf, do not retreat into despair in the face of radical evil.

a discomfort with uncertainty that impels a compulsion to explain or account for every mystery under the sun.

In a review of Jung’s autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, one of the most revealing pieces Winnicott ever wrote, he suggested: If I want to say that Jung was mad, and that he recovered, I am doing nothing worse than I would do in saying of myself that I was sane and through analysis and self-analysis I achieved some measure of insanity. F

Unless the client walks in with a placard saying i remind you of your mother, I assume that what I feel is pretty much what everyone else feels. Minimally, I can use my reaction as data to help me arrive at a diagnosis—a relational diagnosis, not a psychiatric one.

The psychopath, he observes, is an intelligent person, characterised by a poverty of emotions, the absence of a sense of shame, egocentricity, superficial charm, lack of guilt, lack of anxiety, immunity to punishment, unpredictability, irresponsibility, manipulativeness, and a transient interpersonal lifestyle

He could only relax when he was completely alone, but being alone reminded Alan of how desperately unfulfilled he felt.