7 notes tagged "solitude"
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longing for wholeness
excerpt from a conversation with him in our Summer 1995 issue, “The Stranger.” being a stranger is a beautiful state of being. So it is difficult
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exigencies of childhood vulnerability
the literal dependence of terribly vulnerable child on its relationships is profoundly overlearned, overconditioned … it becomes difficult later to
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the ubiquity of the experience of loneliness
life begins with traumatic separation … (and) is spent trying either to recover that lost connection by some form of regressive impulse or to
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transferring journey to companionship
loneliness that serves both the achievement of personhood and the quality of any relationship … the more one can embrace one’s separateness, the
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Moment of utter collapse, kafka
For a man who has been locked up in his “Hamlet isolation” for half a lifetime, the experience of human warmth and closeness is a reprieve from
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going to the place of the Mothers
Any man embarking on this symbolic quest must understand that he will be swept into one enthusiasm after another. Such enthusiasms soon wane and are
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jung house in the woods retreat
Carl Jung. In the 1920s, at the same time that Jung was attempting to break away from the strictures of his mentor, Sigmund Freud, he began regular
#biographical #solitude