webs

The more I study, the more I realize that the problems many of my favorite texts had set out to solve are those that were created and developed by patriarchal shaman-dreamers.   I read, for instance, that it is now widely recognized that Freud's treatment of Dora was an abuse of the therapeutic relationship.   Although he found it impossible to determine what she wanted from therapy, it would not have taken more than a simple, common-sense appreciation of human needs and tendencies to realize she wanted his moral support. More specifically, she wanted his recognition that she was not going crazy, but that her family were making her feel as if she was, by lying to her face.

Patriarchal dreamers see nothing in a straight-forward way, hence Freud's treatment of Dora only reinforced her worst suspicions.   In order to dream his fantasy that wove his Oedipus theory, he had to deny her the meaning of her practical reality -- and she plunged downhill, from there.

Thus, patriarchal dreamers knit a web which many can't escape.