Status Updates From Cent'anni di psicanalisi: E...

To think of the superego as an aesthetic principle instead of a moral one is very nice; however, though I completely agree that usefulness isn't the point and to do that would miss the whole point of this, I think in aesthetics there can be a role to raising concioussness about the social condition we are all living in (i.e. alienation) and then tie it in with a comunal concern

Therapy as an aesthetics of forming in play, athletics, movement, gesture, rather than rather than introspection into insight, understanding emotional balance, etc. This is very good, but then what is the therapist in this situation? Not a doctor in the sense of treating a patient, and definitely not a employee seeking clients.

Before it was pointed out that therapy actively denies any involvement with the environment the psyche is coupled with. How cities, people, family, etc. affect us deeply, and how maybe different cities contain different "souls" and may require different therapies; however, he and his friend still want to believe in a true self based on archetypes, traceable in écrits. Isn't this the whole problem?

Hillman talks of a comunication addiction that results on a feedback loop of ever deepening loneliness: we feel alone; we talk or write to someone else about how alone we feel; we become aware of how alone we are; we feel even lonelier. In other words, just being open to talk about something ("I'm always there for you", "let me know when you feel x", etc.) doesn't really mend the wounds. What then?

The "Self" that is trying to be individuated, in the sense of an individual acting in integrity with its values, is like a fisherman on a boat trying to catch fish over a black sea; but that is to interpret the system (the fisherman) and its tools (the boat and fish net) as something diametrically foreign to what's trying to catch.