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Psychoanalysis & Genesis
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
Revised Standard Version
Transference & Spirit
“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.
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.
- Romans 8
Revised Standard Version
Dream & Psalm, Gospel
The dreams of young children are frequently pure wish-fulfillments and are, in that case, quite uninteresting compared with the dreams of adults.
- Freud, S. (1900). Chapter 3, The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung).
The unconscious always protects the conscious.
...keeping that dream as long as your unconscious thought necessary, or as long as your conscious mind thought would be desirable.
- Erickson, Chapter 1 & 3, Hypnotic Realities.
First, the parents’ desires for life as regards their child reflect a like desire in the child himself, and secondly, that the good image of the parents is a depository of the child's own Eros (Life Instinct).
...And as regards therapy, this means that through interpretation, one has to give back to the patient this manifestation of his life instinct, which he had put into the analyst.
— Racker, H. (1968). Transference and Countertransference.
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.
- Psalm 113 (112)
11 Merciful lóve and fáithfulness have mét; jústice and péace have kíssed.
12 Fáithfulness shall spríng from the éarth, and jústice look dówn from héaven.
- Psalm 85 (84)
The Revised Grail Psalms - Singing Version: A Liturgical Psalter . Gia Publications.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me; or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves.
26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
- Gospel of John, 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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