Thursday 30 July 2015
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Rhodesia
Antistar211
Do you still identify as Rhodesian?
Jennifer Armstrong
That would be very difficult for me to do, given those circumstances described in the video. It would have to be like reclaimed land. But psychological land is the hardest to reclaim. Supposing that everything you experienced up until the age of 15 was given the name, "Nazi Traitor". I wonder what you would do about it. Is it better to just proclaim that one was born at the age of 15, and start again, as if one had not had any experiences prior to that time? I tried that and I ended up with a rather schizoid and detached character, which couldn't emotionally relate to the present.
Do you still identify as Rhodesian?
Jennifer Armstrong
That would be very difficult for me to do, given those circumstances described in the video. It would have to be like reclaimed land. But psychological land is the hardest to reclaim. Supposing that everything you experienced up until the age of 15 was given the name, "Nazi Traitor". I wonder what you would do about it. Is it better to just proclaim that one was born at the age of 15, and start again, as if one had not had any experiences prior to that time? I tried that and I ended up with a rather schizoid and detached character, which couldn't emotionally relate to the present.
Thursday 23 July 2015
Tuesday 21 July 2015
Vlog CCXXX
It's strange how people nowadays seem to have less toleration for dogs being dogs, so that they do not endure difficult and retraining periods with them. They don't understand the "nature" is rarely if ever totally fixed. There is a lot of potential for adaptability and change in most instances. It's only the really sick animals and humans that cannot change.
Monday 20 July 2015
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Thursday 16 July 2015
MYTH IN PLACE OF POLITICAL NUANCE: Odysseus meets Polyphemus
Published on 16 Jul 2015
(parts 1 and 2) This is a two part series outlining how mythological practices replace normal human relations and deform them.
Odysseus' antagonism to colonialism is lacking in political nuance
This is a follow-on from the previous video.
I discuss how modern Westerners see recent Western colonialism. They view it not through a refined political lens but though the lens of myth. This approach perpetuates psychological dynamics that avoid them having to relate realistically to the real material and psychological structures of the recent colonial past.
Wednesday 15 July 2015
Vlog CCXIX
27 is interesting too. Because of the very high level of authoritarianism in my character, I found this internal injunction to be the hardest one to transgress. It was also the most important one for me to defy. You have to bring to light the abuses of even the esteemed authorities, at least as a symbolic gesture of your own. It's very important that the observing self (if we can imagine the self divided into two parts -- an active and observing component) can see that the active self is taking strong measures on its own behalf. This builds self-esteem and mental strength to stand alone.
Tuesday 14 July 2015
Vlog CCXVII
I had two or three layers of my father's psyche to deal with. In one part he saw me as his omnipotent mother who was being mean and casting him out into danger without any support. On the other side he saw me as a representative of himself and his own personal failures, being kicked and booted around in life. He desperately needed me to express the emotions of his alienation for him. I had to express his response to all the negativity he had encountered in life -- the psychological torment and anguish of it. On another level he saw me as "emotion" as such, which is to say the feminine part of the stiff, masculine or soldiery ideal he had been brought up to embrace.
Well, after his stroke I did help him to express himself in a much healthier fashion by narrating to me his memoirs. Strangely, the manipulative and projective part of his brain was destroyed by the stroke and he became more linear, realistic in thought, as well as more gentle and uninhibited. So I have all these disjointed vignettes, narrating his pain.
Monday 13 July 2015
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