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Friday, 02 May 2008
Extractive identification epilogue
Roses states: “Ohh my goodness! I like the pictures!”
Thanks for your comment Roses. I am learning how to listen.
I am very much a visual type of person so when I do a blog post I put in pictures which just seem to fit right.
I have a huge file of pictures in my computer. I obtain these at random usually, (Sometimes I go looking for a picture on a specific topic but mostly it is just random scouring of the web and the blogosphere). If it find one that I like, that just touches me in some way or just seems interesting then I will save it. So in this sense it is an unconscious process for me. I just go with whatever seems to fit for me at that time.
Sometimes it is not too hard to understand ones unconscious urges.
The best photographs you find are on the websites or blogs of the deviants, the tormented and the maladjusted. In recent times I have been scouring “ana” blogs. Those individuals who promote anorexia nervosa as a viable life style. You come across some very interesting people who have great pictures on ana sites. However I digress.
Oh, let me digress just a little more. On Flickr there are many sites of men who dress in women’s clothing, particularly women's underwear. These men upload pictures of them selves onto their Flickr site!!. They show their faces and often other quite revealing parts of themselves which is quite hard to take being a male myself. But I can’t believe they show their faces in such photographs, what if their neighbour comes across them!! I certainly don’t download any of these I may add.
However, getting back to the point. As I scour the blogosphere I choose most of these pictures through my unconscious with little or no though given as to why I pick that one. When I have written a post I go to my picture folders and choose pictures that just seem to fit for the post. Some times I will pick a specific picture that fits for what I am saying but mostly in the hundreds I often go through a few just jump out at me for some reason. Again more unconscious selection.
I intuitively selected this photograph
As I now look at the pictures in the post Extractive Identification - Part 3, I find your comment quite revealing for me Roses. These are the photographs which I would call D&M photos. They are deep & meaningful. They are the beautiful photographs which the serious photographer would take. They are the photographs that one could have a serious discussion about in terms of its artistic qualities.
As I now listen to my unconscious I hear myself use the word ‘serious’ twice. That has been a difficulty for myself about the approach promoted by Bollas and what I observed at the workshop a few weeks ago. This therapeutic approach seems to me to be largely D&M and often quite serious. To my mind this is a negative. They don’t have enough fun or humour in the therapeutic approach and thus miss out on the therapeutic value of humour and Free Child in the therapy. This I wrote about in a previous post titled Humour and human functioning.
Taking life seriously
So obviously as I take from these psychoanalytically oriented approaches their means of understanding and using unconscious communication, I will then weave it into my style which tends to use a good deal of humour. It keeps the therapy lighter at least at times and is repeatedly stimulating the Free Child. Which in my view is important in psychological change and growth.
Graffiti
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I am a bit the same Grafitti. I might see a picture or something out the window and a blog is created from that. At the moment I am seeing several crows and magpies out my window. They are making a raquet of a noise and jostling around a dead magpie laying on the ground. The crows want to take the carcass away and the maggies are protecting their own. What does this mean to me at this moment?
In a deep and meaninful way I reflect on the harshness involved and the reality of life. I know the dead carcass in my mind, is a warning. A reality warning perhaps and to the maggies, well if they begin to swoop people a professional shooter will come out and waste a shit load of them. The unconscious message is there for them if they get it.
k
Posted by: kenoath | Friday, 02 May 2008
Sounds like a bit of a war going on over at your place Kenoath!!
Yes lets hope the magpies get it
Graffiti
Posted by: Graffiti | Friday, 02 May 2008
I hear your humour come through in your posts and comments Tony. A free spirit too.
Yet sometimes I smile as just occaisionally a flicker of conservatism comes through.
:-)
Thanks for the tip; I will have a good look at flickr tonight!!
Posted by: kahless | Friday, 02 May 2008
Holy Smokes Kahless! "A flicker of conservatism"? It's so strange but i find it difficult to see Tony any way other than conservative... but then again things are often rarely as they seem.
Tony,
Your intuitive pic is my fav on this post. And, i don't agree with you when you said...
"The best photographs you find are on the websites or blogs of the deviants, the tormented and the maladjusted."
Unless of course, you are a tormented, maladjusted deviant. Perhaps that explains your conservatism?
roses
Posted by: roses | Saturday, 03 May 2008
Some say I am conservative in some ways Roses,
But in other ways I am not.
However I don't see it really being a matter of conservativism. Looking at photographs of men dressed in women's underwear on Flickr is not really my thing.
Why do so many men and women take photographs of their genitals and then feel the need to display them publicaly on Flickr for us poor unfortunates to stumble upon.
Tony
Posted by: Tony | Saturday, 03 May 2008
I wasn't talking about the public display of photos of people's genitals - I was just mentioning how i tend to find you conservative. That's all.
Any way... if you don't like it, why do you go there? Apart from the fact that you can't know till you go there and see what is there, why not just move on? And if they're wearing underwear, aren't they covered?
I don't know if i go many places and find genitals. A week or so ago, my cat was desexed and lost his. Well not all. He's still trying to hump my pillow though! Bad Kitty!
roses
Posted by: roses | Saturday, 03 May 2008
Ben Cousins and "Such is life Roses"
That is what the great man says.
I think I can live with it
Hope your having a nice Sunday.
Tony
Posted by: Tony | Sunday, 04 May 2008
Actually, why do they take pics of their genitals and post them on the web? I don't know...
roses
Posted by: roses | Monday, 05 May 2008
Well Roses that is a very good question
But I am not too sure of my answer to it
Tony
Posted by: Tony | Tuesday, 06 May 2008