A journey into the mind and self understanding
In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself. – S. Freud In 1917, Freud wrote his paper on “Mourning and Melancholia”. In this paper Freud talked about the differences between mourning (the process of grief and moving on) and melancholia (a pathologic process in … Continue reading “White” Melancholia
September is national suicide prevention month. I thought, with that in mind, I might spend a few minutes talking about suicide and suicide prevention. Suicide rates have been on the increase in our youth for the past several decades. Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among people age 10 to 34. Even … Continue reading Talking about Suicide
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.– William Shakespeare We have been working through and dealing with very trying times in the past six months. It feels like the hard work we do does not get us anywhere and we are surrounded by voices telling us there is no hope. There … Continue reading Pandemic Fatigue
Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate and hate leads to suffering". A quote from Yoda as he teaches the young Luke Skywalker the ways of the Jedi. The entire Star Wars franchise … Continue reading Psychoanalysis and the Jedi: The Oedipal Menace
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to the knowledge of the unconscious in mental life. – Sigmund Freud Accepting that we have an unconscious life is one thing, but gaining access to it is something entirely different. Just like in the Star Wars movies, where characters have to accept the concept of the … Continue reading Psychoanalysis and the Jedi: The Unconscious Awakens
Knowing You 