.If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well
—Rilke, on withdrawing from
psychotherapy after learning
the goals to which it aspired.
Letter 74, Briefe aus den
Jahren 1907 bis 1914.
The daimonic needs to be directed and channeled. Here is where human"
consciousness becomes so important. We initially experience the daimonic as
a blind push. It is impersonal in the sense that it makes us nature’s tool. It
pushes us toward the blind assertion of ourselves, as in rage, or toward the
triumph of the species by impregnating the female, as in sex. When I am in a
rage, it coudn’t matter to me less who I am or who you are; I want only to
strike out and destroy you. When a man is in a state of intense sexual
excitement, he loses his personal sense and wants only to “make” or “lay”
(as the verbs of forcing so clearly put it) the woman, regardless of who she
is. But consciousness can integrate the daimonic, make it personal. This is
."the purpose of psychotherapy
مهمان عزیز شما قادر به مشاهده پیوندهای انجمن مانشت نمیباشید. جهت مشاهده پیوندها ثبت نام کنید.
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