The session started. The analysand, like it happens in the last months’ sessions, is in despair. The feeling of sadness fills the room. The psychoanalyst is the exclusive receiver of these feelings and he experiences them intensely. This is, anyway, one of his targets. The psychoanalyst doesn’t have as a primary target to ease the […]
In the Narcissus Myth recorded by Ovid (1984), Liriope was raped by the river god Cephisus where she conceived and gave birth to Narcissus. When Liriope asked the prophet Tiresias about her son’s fate, his message was clear: Narcissus will live a long life as long as he doesn’t get to know himself. Narcissus
A lot has been written regarding the relationship between mother and baby and the importance of the father’s role has been somehow neglected. The primary relationship of the baby and the mother plays a major role in the establishment of all future relationships the baby would have. However, the father’s role should not be underestimated.
Violence of man is not a phenomenon of the last centuries. It exists from the very beginning. Close to the end of his career, Freud wrote that in man there is an inborn impulse for aggression. Violence is not so much learned from the environment, it exists inside of us and wants release. The British
When Freud (1920) wrote that there appears to be in man an inborn drive for aggression and destruction it created a reaction in the fields of psychoanalysis (and not only). Up until that point the only drive that existed for Freud was the libidinal/life drive or sexual drive. Two decades later, the atrocities of the
We have the tendency to connect maturity with age and expect people of certain age and position to have a mature way of thinking and handling of situations. A brief look at the daily news though shows the real picture of the level of maturity people have especially those that govern the world. I was
On the first day of school after the summer vacation and as I always do, I drove my daughter to school. She was now on second grade. All throughout the first year I walked with her to her class. She demanded that I hold her hand to class and every time I asked her whether
I remember coming home from school one day when I shockingly witnessed my bedroom furniture being rearranged. All hell broke loose. The moral precept to parents or future parents: Never mess with a teenager’s bedroom, at least without their permission. They are living in an internal chaos, struggling to organise strong emotions. The last thing
A friend saw the picture above of a fence on my business card and made the following comment: “Nice picture, it shows how people build their fences.” I hadn’t thought of the picture in that way before. It’s always fascinating how people see the same thing in different ways. I always thought of the picture
First of all I would like to thank my daughters who provide me with all the inspirations to write these articles. Our children are the best teachers in becoming better parents so we need to pay the necessary attention in everything they tell us. One day while driving home with my daughter (she was 5
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