Durant wrote:
>
> > Brad McCormick wrote:
> > > I will again repeat what a psychotherapist once told me:
> > >
> > > To be a good therapist,
> > > you need to be well paid and well laid.
> >
>
> You may substitute any profession or occupation
> to "good therapist" and pronto, there is an answer for
> all futurework queries... and if we all have proper protection
> even Jay will be happy..
>
> Eva.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Let me give the Melanie Klein quote in full:
> Enjoyment is always bound up with gratitude; if this gratitude
> is deeply felt it includes the wish to return goodness
> received and is thus the basis of generosity. There
> is always a close relation between being able to accept and to
> give, and both are part of the relation to the good
> object [prototypically, the nurturing mother] and therefore
> counteract loneliness. Furthermore, the feeling of
> generosity underlies creativeness, and this applies to the infant's
> most primitive constructive activities as well as
> to the creativeness of the adult. (Melanie Klein, Envy and gratitude
> and other works, 1946-1963, 1975, p. 310)
This is obviously antipodal to the "sublimation" thesis, which
has it that culture only advances by putting the screws to people.
Another British psychoanalyst, Donald Winnicott, coined the
term: "holding environment" (the mother provides a safe space
for the infant to explore the world; the father provides a safe
space for the mother...; "society" provides a safe space for the
father...). He also argued that human maturation is a process of
developing from dependency to *relative* independence -- where
one both needs society's support and one also becomes one
of the supporters of the supportive social process.
\brad mccormick
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Mankind is not the master of all the stuff that exists, but
Everyman (woman, child) is a judge of the world.
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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