2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
When people ask me how psychoanalysis works and what it is all about, I find it difficult to fit it into a few sentences. But there are a few examples of metaphors that describe it perfectly
Doing psychoanalysis is like reading several novels at the same time. For example, "Game of Thrones" by Martin, "The Financier" Dreiser, "Atlas Shrugged" Rand, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by Rowling, "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky, "Hundred Years of Solitude" by Marquez, "Count of Monte Cristo" by Dumas and a few more works by Franco, Orwell and King to boot. And all this is not in turn, but in parallel. Because each client has its own story. Childhood, growing up, relationships and quarrels, expectations and disappointments, hopes and decline. My own story of resistance and the search for my own - I. My own theater of the absurd and a stage for one actor. When everyone has their own personal demons and doubts about their own strengths, intelligence, beauty, harmony, normality.
Doing psychoanalysis is like putting together a puzzle with three thousand pieces. It's one thing to put together a jigsaw puzzle with a scene from Cars, Snow White or any other children's cartoon, where clear outlines, bright colors with almost no halftones and everyone is smiling. It is more difficult when it is some kind of "big wave in Kanagawa" or "a girl with a pearl earring", where many details are almost the same color, and of course the shape and size are also almost the same. And an absolutely wonderful and exciting activity to collect a puzzle, for example, consisting of the roofs of Jerusalem in the evening or a dense green forest. And among all this "variety" of details, you need to find those that will not just fit one another, but just fall into place.
Doing psychoanalysis is not just painting a picture based on inspiration and in the mode of sending it. Psychoanalysis cannot be just a hobby in between being a blogger, massage therapist, or nuclear physicist. Simply because, like any skill, it requires perfection and constant upgrade. It is to sit down and “write” a certain number of sheets a day, returning to certain pages over and over again to give them additional meaning and depth of the image.
It is to paint the same person in search of that very technique, that very pressure on the brush, those same semitones, until you find your own approach. This is to return to the same fragment several times in order to endow it with new shades, new metaphors. It's about doing the same thing over and over, day in and day out, and doing it each time in a different way, adjusting to the material you're working with.
Psychoanalysis is about loving the very process of unleashing complex problems. This is a search for the very butterfly that, with a flap of its wing, caused a flood in a small corner of the soul.
At the same time, psychoanalysis is not just about solving a riddle. It is to be able to feel, not letting these feelings overwhelm. It remains stable when even the glass in the office is ready to crack from unbearableness. It is to stay quietly close until everything else takes on new meanings. It is to give space to “just be” - without judgment or condition.
It is always difficult for me to describe psychoanalysis in a few phrases. It is always an understandable, but at the same time complex process, how to weave fragments of different knitting technique into one continuous canvas so that it becomes integral. And yes, sometimes it's a damn hard job. But every time - incredibly beloved) which I wish you too)
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