Quotes
"Own is a very big word in therapy;
you own your life, as if there's a self, an individual, enclosed self,
within a skin. That's individualism. That's the philosophy of therapy. I
question that. The self could be redefined, given a social definition, a
communal definition." Hillman, James. Networker, Sept/Oct 1991.
"When we consider the soul of
relationship, unexpected factors come into view. In its deepest nature,
for example, the soul involves itself in the stuff of this world, both
people and objects. It loves attachments of all kinds--to places, ideas,
times, historical figures and periods, things, words, sounds, and
settings--and if we are going to examine relationship in the soul, we have
to take into account the wide range of its loves and inclinations. Yet
even though the soul sinks luxuriously into its attachments, something in
it also moves in a different direction. Something valid and necessary
takes flight when it senses deep attachment, and this flight also seems so
deeply rooted as to be an honest expression of soul. Our ultimate goal is
to find ways to embrace both attachment and resistance to attachment, and
the only way to that reconciliation of opposites is to dig deeply into the
nature of each. As with all matters of soul, it is in honoring its
impulses that we find our way best into its mysteries." Moore, Thomas.
SoulMates: Honoring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship, Harper
Collins, 1994, p. 3.
Examples
Statement of Point
Acknowledging the lifescape of
meaning below and within knowledge gives psychology an actual and clear
domain to work in. The lifescape make the “unconscious” visible, and
subjects as knowledge alliances is a clear way to bridge the duality of
consciousness of the therapy encounter–where reality is put on one side
and feelings on another. There’s no surprise here as psychology has
labored patiently exposing personal investments and relationships within
our firmest beliefs. Further, all issues of identity are collaborative in
being both constructed and discovered.
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