10 notes tagged "fantasies"
soul and psychological ideas for imaginal world
Mar 2024
Hillman likes the word soul it eludes reductionistic definition; it expresses the mystery of human life; and it connects psychology to religion, #imagination
#fantasies
brain’s press secretary interpreter module
Nov 2023
All human brains contain an interpreter module whose job is to make sense of experiences by constructing explanations in the form of stories #introspective
#stories
#fantasies
#mimetic
psychotherapy assumption processing traumas
Dec 2021
our assumption, our fantasy, in psychoanalysis has been that we’re going to process, we’re going to grow, and we’re going to level things out so #fantasies
#culture
#therapeutic
repressing processing ore of imagination
Dec 2021
creative artists are simply models of people who turn to the imagination to work with things. That’s why one needs to read the biographies of #artist
#imagination
#traumatic
#therapeutic
#consumerism
#fantasies
therapy wordly skills and power
Dec 2021
Explores the contrast between therapy's focus on inner growth and the lack of worldly skills gained, questioning the assumption that personal development directly translates into external power. #therapeutic
#memory
#fantasies
#intelligence
fantasy of growth in therapy
Dec 2020
the fantasy of growth that you find in therapy, and also in New Age thought, doesn’t include this awkwardness … when we look at people going through #therapeutic
#fantasies
archetypal fantasy of ego development
Dec 2020
when we conceive our life story as a Battle for Deliverance from the Great Mother – as Jung called it – we are engaged in heroics; these heroics #archetypes
#fantasies
therapeutic fiction genre
Dec 2020
fictions are mental constructs, fantasies by means of which we fashion or “fiction” (fingere) a life or a person into a case history Portnoy’s #fantasies
#fiction
#therapeutic
factual history claims literal truth
Dec 2020
… factual history, a true account or knowledge about the “succession of events through which anything passes … a lie when it claims literal truth. #fantasies
#scientism
continually internalizing and externalizing process
Dec 2020
affirm psychic reality in another way – not by copying the literalistic metaphors, the fantasies of fixity and hardness, that we use for outer #fantasies
#hindu
#reality
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