tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post522337974544181760..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Culture of Psychotherapy in ArgentinaStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-25052378387426341992014-03-02T23:08:04.239-08:002014-03-02T23:08:04.239-08:00Buenos Aires, the city of psychoanalysis and plast...Buenos Aires, the city of psychoanalysis and plastic surgery.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-79954236390193266142014-02-28T14:25:29.426-08:002014-02-28T14:25:29.426-08:00I always liked Jung more than Freud. I like the id...I always liked Jung more than Freud. I like the idea that imagination allows us to see a wider world of potential, even if its all dangerous. I have no idea how many Jungian psychologists out there.<br /><br />I like the idea of archetypes, and showing the ancient people's gods like Zeus, Jupiter or Oden, and their lower pantheons, so we say they were superstitious, but there's an advantage to shifting some of the responsibility to archetypal sources, and seeing them as something outside of us, rather than ego-identification with them.<br /><br />James Cahill wrote a book called "The gifts the Jews" how their monotheistic god helped break a cyclic view of time into one of continual progress.<br /><br />Perhaps you might consider all of humanistic Therapy is a way to escape a monotheistic religious world view that is dominant and used to destroy an unliving world that can be managed like a machine, So other "jealous gods" might have wisdom to find for special countries like Argentina.<br /><br />We can't safely judge cultural success and failure in the short run, if the powerful are actually on a deadend road but don't know it, they can laugh at those heading off into the wilderness - asking impossible questions and purpose and meaning that make people look slow and stupid, but maybe religious values will arise and be reborn there, even in what looks like failure from the outside?<br /><br />Lots of cultures have funny ideas of their specialness, and if they're patient and determined, like the Jews, their culture might define the 1000 year future, not because they're special, but because their rival were self-blinded fools and so the determined losers just have to wait for the empires to fall over?<br /><br />You never know what power stories have to change the world, for good or bad. I prefer the scientific outlook myself, but I have no evidence rationality is going to save us from ourselves.<br /><br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-10305735784691200822014-02-28T14:15:07.167-08:002014-02-28T14:15:07.167-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-75651939166829081752014-02-28T10:21:42.712-08:002014-02-28T10:21:42.712-08:00I'm not very familiar with Frankl, but the app...I'm not very familiar with Frankl, but the approach you describe would certainly have been a vast improvement over what we and especially the Argentinians have.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-77162858832722617642014-02-28T08:43:37.366-08:002014-02-28T08:43:37.366-08:00Stuart, do you think that we would perhaps all be ...Stuart, do you think that we would perhaps all be better off if psychologists had adopted the approach of Victor Frankl as opposed to that of Freud, Lacan and their followers? I am no expert, but I remember reading Frankl's books and his logotherapy approach and finding it liberating and empowering. Rather than dig around in the dusty corners of the psyche, instead focus on purpose in life, our responsibilities and our loves. Frankl was an amazing man and I still love to read his thoughts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com