Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis

We must not lose ourselves - keep on keeping track!

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”

–Søren Kierkegaard

We should love ourselves as Simone Weil says.....

“God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.”

–Simone Weil

Photo by Herbert Tobias

Noting it all down is practical - afterwards you can choose what to do with it.......

Jean-Michel Basquiat(1960-1988)
Tuxedo
1982

Photograph: Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York

Amazing lines crossing all sorts of imaginary taboos.......

W i l l e m - d e - K o o n i n g
Valentine
1947

When looking for the truth there is only one place......

Azeitão from one of its multiple charming angles.....

Showing ones real face yes, can be difficult and is rare,?

Fine writers do psychoanalysis

“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.”

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

Women pass language on from one generation to the next......

“I would rather be inclined to believe that it is women who invented language.

Moreover, this is what Genesis gives to understand. Women speak with the serpent – that is, with the phallus.

They speak all the more with the phallus, given that it is hetero for them at that time.”

Jacques Lacan, 1975
Art by Gareth Southwell

Be careful what you wish for.......

We all want to be the cool panther - and sometimes we are.....

Mel

Raymond was a forefront in social realism in the 1970 cutting with idealization of the run of the mill literature.......cut to the bone

“If you want the truth, I'm prouder of that, that I've quit drinking, than I am of anything in my life.” —Raymond Carver https://buff.ly/3PgHUKd

Amoreiras seen down from the open tunnel - the small typical Portuguese tiles looking like camouflage ground and the iconic buildings hovering and glistening in the sun set.....new Lisbon

Over 100 years ago James Joyce thought that the youth might lack humanity and humour - what else is new......

“But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day”. Dubliners, written by

Trying to get closer to something that does not exist - the eternal pursuit......

“The absence of sexual relation clearly doesn’t prevent liaisons, far from it, but rather provides them with their conditions.”

Jacques Lacan, Seminar XIX … or Worse
René Magritte, Dangerous Liaisons, 1926

Being in Love - is there anything better?

Fine writers on love

“Waiting is an enchantment ... Am I in love? ... Yes, since I am waiting.”

Roland Barthes - A Lover’s Discourse, Fragments, 1977Lacancircle.com.au/painful-loves

Such a sweet little cookie ......

Chaim Soutine
The Little Pastry Cook
c 1927

Photograph: Christie's Images, London/Scala, Florence

A literate portrait of a butcher boy......

Chaim Soutine
Butcher Boy
c 1919-1920

Photograph: © Courtauld Gallery, Simon Capstick-Dale (New York)

This a morning picture of Lisbon from Azeitão for Rafael Fabio - one sees Lisbon in the horizon.......

In other words we cannot understand sexual relations......

“Does meaning elude us because we are stupid? Lacan does not say that.

According to Lacan, the flight of meaning is the most certain, the most ‘scientific’ status of sexual rapport.

The inexistence of sexual rapport appears to us in language by means of the phenomenon of the flight of meaning.”

Jacques-Alain Miller, The Lost Object of Language

Hannah Arendt inderstandings turn out to surprise everyone......

Fine philosophers do psychoanalysis

“There are other people who are primarily interested in doing something. I am not. I can very well live without doing anything. But I cannot live without trying to understand whatever happens.”

Hannah Arendt, pictured in 1949

The sun sets in Azeitão always make me appreciate deeply living
here.......

The open umbrella versus the open sky.......

“The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.” Walter Gropius. Photo © Frank Schnakenberg.

That makes sense.......

Vintage comics do psychoanalysis

“Let’s pretend everything makes sense!”

Lyset - jeg kan hjælpe dig med at se klart hvilken vej du skal ...... send en besked og vi tager fat.....

Wonderful David that you research for the well being of others.....

More People Are Microdosing for Mental Health. But Does It Work? Scientists are split over whether the benefits some microdosers experience are a placebo effect or something more.

Neuroleptika er en delikat affaire - David Erritsøe er med til at gøre denne oplevelse lettere.....