"The common accusatory stance towards perpetrators and victims reinforces such a constricted state of mind and narrows the range of opportunities for traumatized individuals to reenter the libinized social matrix." ---49.
Emery, Paul F. & Emery, Olga B. "Psychoanalytic Considerations on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder." Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy 19.1 (1989): 39-53.
Shamanism, however, enables a re-entry in the libidinised matrix, by compelling you to encounter psychical forces as they are, that is as contingent forces (and to view yourself as a contingent being.)
This is in contrast to the traumatised mind's tendency to understand psychical forces as traumatic absolutes, which were directed at you personally.
Such a traumatised perspective wastes much of ego's energy because of an investment in the idea of absolute forces – ie. the idea that there are absolute victims or absolute perpetrators – which, in turn, leads to a "repetition compulsion" .
And the "repetition compulsion" involves constantly trying to itch a wound, as if to grasp some non-existent revelatory meaning, assumed to lurk behind the original experience of the trauma.
By contrast, shamanistic experience reveals that life is contingency, and that such an absolute meaning does not exist to be found, but that life has much to offer by virtue of its being contingency. It is by means of this very different experience of the nature of reality that shamanism cures.
Emery, Paul F. & Emery, Olga B. "Psychoanalytic Considerations on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder." Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy 19.1 (1989): 39-53.
Shamanism, however, enables a re-entry in the libidinised matrix, by compelling you to encounter psychical forces as they are, that is as contingent forces (and to view yourself as a contingent being.)
This is in contrast to the traumatised mind's tendency to understand psychical forces as traumatic absolutes, which were directed at you personally.
Such a traumatised perspective wastes much of ego's energy because of an investment in the idea of absolute forces – ie. the idea that there are absolute victims or absolute perpetrators – which, in turn, leads to a "repetition compulsion" .
And the "repetition compulsion" involves constantly trying to itch a wound, as if to grasp some non-existent revelatory meaning, assumed to lurk behind the original experience of the trauma.
By contrast, shamanistic experience reveals that life is contingency, and that such an absolute meaning does not exist to be found, but that life has much to offer by virtue of its being contingency. It is by means of this very different experience of the nature of reality that shamanism cures.
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