tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post6301599887260357080..comments2024-02-11T18:16:53.445-08:00Comments on Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Simple Truth is Revolutionary: The Chemistry of Depression (How Memory Is Inscribed)Arthur Janovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16709863014923629409noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-21826695561150867252012-03-23T03:00:24.461-07:002012-03-23T03:00:24.461-07:00Hi,
-"Jules used to intellectualize and beat ...Hi,<br />-"Jules used to intellectualize and beat around the subject endlessly never getting to any point"-.<br /><br />I'm much the same. Mostly my big words are all just fancy defences. Sometimes the big words convey something of value but I know my 3rd line is a hall of mirrors in which I get lost. Before I understood 'evolution in reverse' I was spellbound by several of the distorted reflections I came across (recurrently) in my hall. When I pass them by now I still get distracted but I pass them by. Feelings outweigh thoughts and big words though, am I getting to the exit yet?<br /><br />I need the clinic to help with my 1st line traumas. That would be the exit from my hall of mirrors.<br /><br />Paul G.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02006514330039884557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-14612630551073765122012-03-22T03:34:32.480-07:002012-03-22T03:34:32.480-07:00Beautiful finish, goosebumps.
This is becoming mor...Beautiful finish, goosebumps.<br />This is becoming more of a science Art and hopefully in time will appeal to the 'powers that be'. Rest assured we will do our best to carry on your legacy.<br /><br />This morning I saw another Orthopaedic surgeon for opinion about my knee. Just another Ortho, another opinion. Yet, it opened memory of all the deep stress of when I was in crisis w/my knee, on crutches this time a year ago. I could feel the stress hormones surging forth, secreting oil, totally giving in to stuffing my face w/pastries and coffee to equalize..<br />(postnote: I still can't use steps, run, dance but am coming to LA regardless. This is the year! See you September)<br />JacquieJacquiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10794214106644328210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-65796737546427133822012-03-22T02:35:42.808-07:002012-03-22T02:35:42.808-07:00Proust, Janov and Eva!
Again, we have had a tragi...Proust, Janov and Eva!<br /><br />Again, we have had a tragic example of, the thousands of years of repeated persecution of the Jews, this time in France. France is said to be the country in Europe with the largest Jewish population and a president, Nicolas Sarkozy, whose father was a Greek Jew. This was one of two impacts that occupied my mind when I went to bed last night. The second impression was the final sentence in Art’s Reflection: “Jules distressed to intellectualize and beat around the subject endlessly never getting to any point. In our last group, I said to Jules one sentence: “The bottom line, Jules.” He hesitated a split second, fell into my arms and shouted: “Help me - I hurt!” “.<br /><br />My dreams last night have been about Jews in my life and the literary world that I am interested in. Anne, the little girl from my early childhood, whose parents came from German death camps in Poland, Art Janov and The Primal Therapy that changed my life, Abbe Bonnier my employer who made my years with Janov in LA possible, Marcel Proust whose life and written production currently enrich me. Other Jewish representatives like Freud, Madhoff, etc. swept by. As it happens in my dreams, I tried to understand. Often it’s about my epilepsy, my neurotic (actions that do not correspond to real needs) and to understand how pain propels the neurotic actions.<br /><br />In the background it is always my personal life story. For decades I lived as a prisoner of my pain which produced neurotic deformations and painkillers, in order for me to survive. My life was not understandable until I was introduced and connected to Art’s principles of “Evolution in Reverse”. Through a combination of talented genius and favourable circumstances, Art turned his youth filled with pain and lack of love and recognition, into an opportunity for us to understand the consequences of unmet needs and loveless fetal toxicity in both the literal and the transmitted sense. He has led us to a new therapy paradigm.<br /><br />Marcel Proust takes presently very large space in my world of thoughts and then I’ve only just started reading him, and analysis on him. His short, brilliant literary life was to the brim full of symbols that represented his bottomless pain and unmet needs. I can best summarize the insights I have so far received by a quotation from Proust: “In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.”<br /><br />The value of Art’s books and Reflections cannot be better expressed than by using Proust words. It is by reading about other people’s anxiety, pain and trauma that we can become aware of and feel our own anxiety and our unmet needs that goes back to our early childhood or even to our life before birth.<br /><br />Intellect, thoughts and words are often a major obstacle to accessing our feelings and nonverbal traumatic memories. However, with more than 70 years of my own memories of physical and mental anxiety and pain, coupled with 40 years of application of of Art’s principles and generous guidance on how emotions can be relived, Proust’s intellectual pain sublimations can be extremely rewarding. Add to that I’m having the opportunity to discuss my impressions with a woman, who for more than 50 years ago made an indelible impression upon my young mind. That makes at least part of life intelligible although last night’s dreams were partly initiated by a tragic event in France. The joy is represented by the fact that Jules took his first step toward health!<br /><br />Jan JohnssonJan Åke Johnssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15107966321155297159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-71869571395070357082012-03-21T03:18:05.792-07:002012-03-21T03:18:05.792-07:00It is physiologically to feel see and hear and it ...It is physiologically to feel see and hear and it is psychological to interpret what we feel see and hear... illusion of what life in its physiological process "tells" us about... that is what we perceive as psychologically. That the question for science... is developed out of illutions is obvious.<br /><br />The psychological process takes its form in the part of the brain for its purpose to handle it ... interpretation of the physiological content to survive. Now we can ask our self’s... why the thinking brain evolved? Why are we a part of our brain that interprets what we feel? Well ... to survive... the pain is excruciating.<br /><br />T0 SURVIVE... has the evolutionary process "found" a way to build a defense against its physiological self ... because as fetuses and small children we could not handle the physiological load ... trauma as it had to endure to survive.<br /><br />There was thus "opportunities" through evolution and the genetic process to “create” a defense... a defense with results that the thinking brain evolved.<br /><br />Life is too short to be of benefit to science... we can and will never be able to exploit it. That we get food on the table... cars to driving around with it is absolutely no science that is favorable for us people as a whole.<br /><br />That science has become an question an issue... is because of the result... the thinking brain evolved for survival ... that part of the brain... does nothing alia than searching for the meaning of life in its process ... search after what there was that got lost... the truth... and the "truth" about our need is the energy to develop science... which in its turn created the need of science and that need do not find any limits of how it should be satisfied... as long as we do not find the source of "demand". The thinking brain can become a part for survival ... but then we must deal with what it conceals.<br /><br />FrankFrankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02242354226308728116noreply@blogger.com