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Are Eastern practices useful for psychological growth?
Is psychoanalysis an aid on an Eastern path?
Carl Gustav Jung had the realization of the existence of a center deep within our being, the Self, the discovery of which is the goal of individuation: the process of psychological development. Unable to find analogies to the Self in Christianity, he turned to Eastern religions, uncovering and finding a reflection of this miracle in Daoism and Hinduism, while also examining Buddhism and Sufism. [More. . .]
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 Also on November 5th: When The Couch Isn’t Enough w/ Joyce Slochower, presented by Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
THIS WILL BE A VIRTUAL ONLINE EVENT VIA ZOOM VIDEOCONFERENCE
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Like Berlin, we all have a wall, an inner wall, that needs to be torn down. It’s a wall we built at a young age, when socialization began and we needed a barrier behind which we could hide that part of ourselves that was unacceptable to our mothers as well as important others. What we hide is the “shadow.” To conceal it, we create a wall that we call the “persona.”
To be a Berliner, is about starting out as a unified whole, as we all started out as infants, as Berlin itself started out. It is then to be split in two with a wall erected between the two parts, as Berlin was, and as we all were when socialization began, shattering our original wholeness.[More. . .]
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“Yet even during the war, some questioned whether the songs of home were a good tonic for homesickness. While sentimental music could raise spirits, it could also depress them..”
Susan Matt, Homesickness: An American History
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