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Psychoanalysis
Life Instinct: a force for survival and propagation, encompassing sexual drives, self-preservation, and basic needs like thirst and hunger
Death instinct: a fundamental, unconscious drive in all living beings toward self-destruction and a return to an earlier, inanimate state
- Beyond The Pleasure Principle, Freud, 1920
Be fruitful and multiply
From dust you come, to dust you shall return
- Genesis 1-3
Transference
“Transference is the whole of the patient’s emotional attitudes toward the analyst. It is composed of repetitions of earlier object relations, revived and experienced anew in the analytic situation.”
“These experiences are not merely repetitions but also communications: through the transference the patient reveals, by means of action and feeling, what has been repressed and what he cannot yet express in words.”
— Racker, H. (1968). Transference and Countertransference. London: Karnac Books, pp. 8-9.
7 From the dúst he lífts up the lówly, from the ásh heap he ráises the póor,
8 to sét them in the cómpany of prínces, yés, with the prínces of his péople.
9 To the chíldless wífe he gives a hóme as a jóyful móther of chíldren.
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.
27 And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
- Psalm 113 (112)
The Revised Grail Psalms - Singing Version: A Liturgical Psalter . Gia Publications.
- Romans 8
Revised Standard Version
My Beginning
My journey into psychology was born on my 8th birthday with a set of children's encyclopaedias as a present, which kept me company on lonely evenings. The sections about philosophy and psychology left their imprints.
Through the teen years and early 20s, I enjoyed the beauty and elegance of physics and mathematics, but also struggled with unknowable emptiness and depression, until:
I crossed the threshold of a Cistercian monastery and found peace. Its humility cured my restlessness, and its stability calmed my angst. My life started a conversation with Life Itself.
Wuyuan Antony-John Jia
BPsych(Hons), GradDipTheol, GradDipPsych, BEd, BSc, Cert III Aged Care
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