“Abraham Lincoln once asked his secretary, “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs will a horse have?” “Five,” the secretary replied. “No,” said the president, “the answer is four. Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.”” We often look at words as “things”. And in a sense, they […]
I continue with my presentation of Liz Greene’s article on the psychological dynamics of love triangles. This time, for people who can read their birth charts, there are astrological significators included. It is about the aspects between the planet of love, Venus, with difficult Saturn and Chiron. Aspects that point to the presence of emotional […]
Even amateurs in psychology are familiar with the Oedipus complex – this key concept in Freud’s psychoanalysis, according to which, at a certain age between three and five (the phallic stage of psychosexual development), the child directs its libido toward the parent of the opposite sex, while at the same time experiencing feelings of rivalry […]
I have always been interested in how the family will change in the future. I mean that the family as we know it now has its historical preconditions, limitations and cultural specificities, and the times we live are changing. It is changing dramatically. And with that, the forms of togetherness are changing. So when I […]
Claudio Naranjo on his practice as a Gestalt therapist: “In my seventeen years of practice, I have repeatedly seen how patients tend to attribute responsibility for their own actions to others, choosing obedience and resentment over freedom and the risk of being unloved. Absorbed in the anonymous ‘they,’ the individual loses contact with his own […]
“Humor brings all people down to their normal size… That’s exactly why it works so successfully at leveling pomposity.” — Robin Skynner Finally, the moment has come to introduce you to my spiritual teacher. When I saw him, I immediately knew it was Him. There was something about his appearance that greatly attracted me, and […]
In fairy tales, there is a recurring motif: things only happen on the third attempt. According to one of the foremost interpreters of fairy tales—the Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz—this motif is connected with the attainment of maturity. In other words, the first two attempts fail because something in the person’s inner psychic situation is […]
“The more closely we analyze what we perceive as ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience when we encounter another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.”— Alain de Botton Usually, the last thing we associate with eroticism is the […]
If you feel the need for change—if you long for something new in your relationship—do not change your partner; change something within yourself. One of the main challenges in long-term relationships is how partners deal with the inevitable crises that arise from the relationship’s development and the need for change. In such moments, the inner […]
At last, I came across something truly valuable regarding the problem of procrastination—a problem that each of us knows to one degree or another. It can range from mild stress and anxiety to genuine agony at the thought that time is passing while, for some reason, we are not doing what we want or need […]
Author. M.V. Lukovnikova Translated from Russian by Violeta Book Rejecting the Father… During the initial interview (a 6-years-old boy; severe neurotic disorder): – Who do you live with? – Mom. – And dad? – We kicked him out. – How come? – We divorced him… He humiliated us… He’s not a man… He ruined our […]
“Nothing in this world is hard, only thinking makes it seem so. When there is a real desire, there is always a way. “ from the book “Monkey: The Journey to the West”
