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Seeking The Answer of Another
There is a moment when a phenomenon unveils the heavy drapery of time, a moment when the impact of experience will ripple beyond what one may comprehend. I am speaking to the psychological impact of an...
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The Desolate and Helpless Void Marred by the Chaotic Tension of Desire
I was drawn to the topic of silence through the writing of Weissman (2009) from Fractal Ontology, in regard to the occurrence of silence as “that shadow of language” (para 1). Such a differentiation...
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The Allegory of Experience
Datson (2013) wrote on an intriguing topic of metaphor and allegory, titled “Musings on Metaphor and Allegory” at Soul Spelunker. What intrigues me is how the expressed symbol (through metaphor) may be...
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A Personal Understanding and Experience of the Word Addiction
What is your understanding or experience of addiction? The word addiction is representative of an intrapsychic understanding or experience. In asking this question, there is the imaginal and rational...
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Symbolic Representations, Projections, Addiction, and Other
Singer (1965) explained that authors might hold opposing views, yet “the generally assumed commonality enables one human to grasp another experience through understanding his [her] symbolizations”...
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Isolation and Fantasy: A Fragmentation of Identity
Last week I discussed the conceptualization of identification in regards to the individual addict. In addiction, there is a great deal of focus on sobriety and stopping the behaviors related to...
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Identified Polarities: The Chaotic Tension
In theory, individuality exists in part “since ‘I-ness’ is a dialectic to otherness—‘I’ both contains and distinguishes itself from what is not itself” (Aragno, 1997, p. 37). Through addiction,...
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A Worn Path: Myth and Addiction
When discussing identity on October 27, 2012, A Theory on Identification and the Conformity of an Identity and on November 3, 2012, Isolation and Fantasy: A Fragmentation of Identity, I had encountered...
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Dreams: The Imagery, Journey, and Expression
I have always been intrigued by the occurrence of dreams, their imagery, metaphorical journey, and plausible emotions associated with the content. Before exploring the content of dreams I would like to...
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Empathy and Addiction: A Quest for Connection
How is the individual to embrace an empathetic approach towards an individualized occurrence of addiction? Just as there are a variety of ways in how one might define empathy, there too is both a...
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