Jul
12
Freud’s Grandson’s Birth of Ego
- July 12th, 2010
Jul
12
The Prepersonal State
- July 12th, 2010
There was being awake in the experience of “blooming, buzzing confusion” as William James described it, then being asleep and immersed in a prepersonal world much like that of the womb.
May
21
From Infant to Ego
- May 21st, 2010
Imago in the Mirror
May
21
The Arrival of Ego
- May 21st, 2010
The original unity between mother and child was broken.
May
21
Eros and Thanatos
- May 21st, 2010
We begin life in symbiotic union with our mothers (and the world). We progressively individuate when we are progressively separated from that symbiosis by birth, by the cutting of the umbilical cord, and by the “blooming, buzzing confusion” of extra uterine life; when we recognize our imago in the presence of our mother and in [...]