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course I’m referring to the fathers of psychoanalysis, whose work has generated
two quite different schools of psychotherapy. As soon as you google their names
up, you’ll find innumerable references about what psychotherapy has meant for
the last one hundred years or so: it evolved from the image of Man (remember? –
the philosophical category ‘man’ is spelled with a capital letter) as the
eternal fetus in search of the protection of his/her mother’s womb to the
complexity of sensations, beliefs and thoughts to be found in any individual, while
trying to understand and help him/her from a holistic viewpoint.
What
was taken to be unscientific in the time of Freud has become the big adventure
of quantum physics of today. Both Freud and Jung contributed to this evolution,
not only through their practice but also because they were contemporary in their
active lives. The very clash of their visions was sufficient for Jung to take
his research further, to dare combine an individual’s apparent normality with
deep-rooted delusions and the idea of parallel instantiations of existence, in
which telepathy, premonitions, or <déjà-vu> experiences stopped being
considered ‘witchcraft’.
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that as it may, both Freud and Jung granted enormous importance to dreams. Today’s
episodes offer us Charlie’s awakening through free association.
The
best thing to do is listen – again and again – and take notes while you view the episode. A myriad of
themes will emerge when you, too, have deciphered Charlie’s identity. And then say who you think was right after all!
CHARLY (V)
CHARLY (V)
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