Adriana Ponzoni1 How can I provide an account as close as possible of the experience lived in India and, as if this were not enough, add the touching reality shared there with Indian analysts, working and exchanging ideas about our different realities, which perhaps are closer than one could imagine? I was worried about and…
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It is the time now for voices among voices supported*
When words shiver and falter in the face of the blank page and in front of the obscure entanglement of thoughts, poets come to our rescue.
Without realizing it, I have followed Freud’s encouragement to resort to them.
“Psychoanalysis will then be seen as a modern meditative practice, a two-person ‘rational’ meditation”
How does one gets knowledge? The western idea is very much critical thinking… here the idea is to completely surrender to the guru, that you will absorb more from the guru surrending than with critical thought. But after you absorbed… you must kill him after, but not from the beginning, with the critical thought.
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‘It’s a strange world, isn’t it?’ A voyeuristic lens on David Lynch’s Blue Velvet
David Lynch’s Blue Velvet is a coming-of-age story developed through a mixture of criminal and psychological investigations, transgressive sexuality, romantic love and psychopathic violence – all presented in its auteur’s unique filmic language. This is a language which appeals to our conscious curiosity to understand the movie’s narrative plot and its characters’ behaviour, but also invites us to relate them to our own deep-seated unconscious fears and desires.
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