In what do you believe? In this,
that the weight of all things have to be measured anew. Friedrich Nietzsche – The
Gay Science
For those wishing to explore innovative ideas and
to be inspired, this website was designed to present a new paradigm
for psychoanalysis – a paradigm originating in the beginnings
of human life and realized from the wisdom of the dream. I
welcome your thoughts and questions. Please visit the contact
page for my address and e-mail.
As long as man has existed on earth, likewise have
dreams. They are part of his nature and a necessity to his
life for they accompany a sleep that is vital to the individual's
resting and the restoring of his balance, his mental and physical
health.
As long as there have been dreams, there has been dream
interpretation and individuals who have devoted their lives to interpret
the dream. These individuals and their interpretations seem for the most
part to have been lost to history. The bible mentions Joseph in Egypt,
the slave whose dream interpretation saved the land. The Pharaoh consequently
put him in charge of the country.
Later Joseph's dream
interpretation was mentioned and talked about and written about though
not understood scientifically. It was Freud who began to understand the
mechanism of the dream and the means to interpret the dream. Dreams had
a meaning and there was a method now to accomplish the meaning.
However, just as Newton might have saluted Galileo and Copernicus or Einstein,
the contributions of Freud did not go far enough. His ideas of dreams
being simply wish fulfillment does not go deeply into the understanding of
man.
My idea is that dreams contain, when properly investigated, the truth of the
individual's life, of his birth, his infancy and
his true feelings about all the people in his family, especially mother and
father. Sometimes dreams can be accounts of the individual's perception
of the group around him, even of his country, even of the mass unconscious. Dreams
can yield a spiritual content when they are explored consistently and deeply. Such
a form of therapy is considered a holistic psychoanalysis - identifying
body, mind and spirit. In a holistic therapy in order to achieve a high
spiritual ground one must go to a deep unconscious level, paradoxical as this
may seem.
We can see in holistic therapy, through one's dreams, that there can be
a construction of one's early life and experience of abuse either emotional
or physical. All is retained on the soft ethereal tissue of mind of which
there is no end. Infantile or child
abuse, conscious or unconscious, either emotional or physical, may
lead to a life of masochism. Masochism is often identified with women
but one finds ubiquitous traces of it in both sexes - admittedly more in women
for a variety of reasons.
Infancy is the mother of the adult - man or woman - and contrary to Freudian
theory it is the mother that is the most important experience in life for all
children, later to become men and women. Our destiny as our infancy lays
entirely in the hearts and minds of our mothers.
