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The Enneagram

• June 8, 2013 • 2 Comments

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Tags: bhagavad gita, Character and Neurosis, Claudio Naranjo, enneagram, enneagram descriptions, Enneagram Institute, Freud, personality, personality types, personality typology, psychoanalysis, rajas and tamas, sattva, Sigmund Freud, typology

Faith

• May 31, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in life, psychology
Tags: autobiography, broken fathers / broken sons: a psychoanalyst remembers, faith, gerald gargiulo, gerald j. gargiulo, listening, psychoanalysis, quotes

L.I.E.

• May 30, 2013 • 4 Comments

Posted in art, cinema, life
Tags: addictions, adolescence, Erik Erikson, film review, homosexuality, identity, independent films, juvenile delinquency, L.I.E., Long Island Expressway, Michael Cuesta, Paul Dano, pedophile, pedophilia, psychoanalysis, sexual abuse, sexuality, suicide, teenage

Disordered desire

• November 29, 2012 • 2 Comments

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Tags: addiction, calling, Catholic, Christianity, desire, Iain Matthew, Impact of God, John of the Cross, meaning, oral retentive, psychoanalysis, psychology, religion, smoking, spirituality, St. John of the Cross

More about Playing

• November 25, 2012 • 2 Comments

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Tags: babies, false self, infants, mother, potential space, psychoanalysis, psychology, true self, Winnicott

Playing and the Transitional Space

• November 9, 2012 • 5 Comments

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Tags: baby, creativity, Donald Winnicott, flow, happiness, infancy, infant, meaning, mother, motherhood, mothering, play, poet, Poetry, potential space, psychoanalysis, psychology, relationships, spontaneity, suffering, transitional object, transitional space, work

A Dangerous Method

• June 14, 2012 • 2 Comments

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Tags: 19 Berggasse, A Dangerous Method, Abraham Maslow, Berggasse 19, cinema, civilisation, culture, david cronenberg, Farther Reaches of Human Nature, film review, Freud, jung, Michael Fassbender, psychoanalysis, psychology, Viggo Mortensen

Grief

• March 10, 2012 • 5 Comments

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Tags: anxiety, god, grief, Leonard Cohen, meaning, psychoanalysis, psychology, spirituality, therapy, Who by Fire

The Ages of Man

• January 26, 2012 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: ages of man, childhood and society, Erik Erikson, identity, psychoanalysis, psychology, quran

The Exorcism of Emily Rose / Anneliese Michel

• June 4, 2011 • 1 Comment

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Tags: Anneliese Michel, anthropology, Catholic Church, Christianity, cinema, Demonic possession, Exorcism, Exorcism of Emily Rose, Fatima, film review, Medusa's Hair, psychoanalysis, Scott Derrickson, Shamans Mystics and Doctors, Sudhir Kakar, Virgin Mary