Basic Psychology #

There are few phrases I've heard over the years that have stuck with me ... one of them being the following:

Freud was an excellent story-teller, and Shakespeare an incredible psychologist.

While the ideas of one of the post-Freudian academics really caught my attention when Lacan spoke of how a child in the womb does not know the difference between themselves, their mother and the larger world.

Birth shatters this oneness, and the child learns that such a thing as "separation" exists in this world; or rather that there is an entity, called the world, that has come between the child and their mother.

We then spend the rest of our lives trying to reconcile this tragedy.

How does one even think to begin ?!?

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I believe that nearly all cultures place a certain importance on drumming ... the playful imitation of our own heart's beat.

Next comes the voice ... with melodies not yet needing words ... just the vocalization of a feeling ...

The feeling ... of being alive.