"...memory in order to receive Your benefits, by which he participates in the power of the Eternal Father; and intellect that he might know, seeing Your goodness, and so might participate in the wisdom of Your only-begotten Son; and will, that he might love that which his intellect has seen and known of Your truth, thus participating in the clemency of Your Holy Spirit."
Friday, August 30, 2024
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
By dogottawa
10:22 AM
"Love is the eternal law whereby the universe was created and is ruled."
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Allan N. Schore
By dogottawa
9:06 AM
"...Winnicott proclaimed 'an instinct repressed along abnormal paths is liable to be shoved down deep into the subconscious and there act as a foreign body: this 'foreign body' may remain in the subconscious for a whole lifetime and completely control the life of the individual who has not control over this curious tendency since it is not known to him even exist'..."
"...Winnicott differentiated a 'true self' and a 'false' or 'caretaker self' designed to protect it. This caretaker self usually becomes identified with the conscious mind, leaving the true self languishing in the body, potentially causing psychosomatic illness. In modern neuropsychoanalytic terms, early developmental trauma generates an underlying weakness of the bodily-based right brain 'true self' that is masked by a left brain pseudo-adult 'false self.'"