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This small collection of essays is the product of my reflections on two aspects of human nature, two aspects that I consider to be in exclusive opposition to each other. One aspect is our access to archetypal images and consistent life-forms, making possible psyche, emotions and feeling values, and marking our inner processes. The other is a lack of images, a vacuum, a lacuna, out of which come excess and the madness of power.
Not only have these two aspects of human nature been involved in a constant struggle throughout man's history on earth, but I am aware of their struggle in my own life and relationships, and they have become central to my conception of psychotherapy.
Let me advise the reader that in the following exposition I try not to qualify these two opposites. My position is psychic and therapeutic, grounded in the way our psychic entity is aware of these two opposites and learns how to suffer their irreconcilability.
The material in the essays is taken mostly from literature, poetry and historical events, but it is reinforced by my own practice of psychotherapy. I hope the reader will appreciate that, in general, I have kept the language of the essays as simple as possible, sometimes even rather colloquial, to avoid the melée of the schools of psychology and even Jungian semantics. In doing so I have given, I think, easier access to the images with which I am dealing.
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