Places — reflecting places in my life.

Just streets. But no, the place that evokes my childhood. Except for the cars it’s all the same. Oh and perhaps the skyscraper. I think as child there was just a field there and a circus tent used to be there.

96 Amstelkaade Amsterdam

 

The Amstel canaal across the road.

Lived there from 1944 to 1952.

 

Plan:  To add more crucial places in my life.  (I do continue these projects, but they may take years.

Yesterday NZ Time was Freud’s birthday

 

 

I wrote a post on Freud’s birthday once before.

that was 2006.  I wrote a few more after that. And I’d like to mention this one, 2018, 12 years after the other one:

Freud and individualism in the 20th century 

I changed my tune on Freud.

I’ve been imagining the world lately as if there is no unconscious just people in action.  Moving in the moment.  Its hard to do, but an interesting process.

Playing with Moreno’s idea that the psyche is outside the body.

Book: The Heart, Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean

 

“Marc Petitjean grew up in a house where Frida Kahlo’s painting, The Heart, also named Memory, hung on one of the walls. Uncovering the story of how the painting was given by Frida to his father, Michel Petitjean, he unfurls not only a passionate love affair between them in pre-Second-World-War Paris, but also a back story about Frida’s paintings around the time and the intersections between France’s surrealist circles and contemporary politics.”

 

Enjoying this half invented book with lots of name dropping of French artists in the thirties. Interesting.  Here is the art in question 

 

Listening on Scribd

 

and reading on Kindle.

So many people! I’ll bring them in and their art as I did with another book Optic Nerve (blog post)

I’ll start with Frida and then Diego Rivera

Continue reading “Book: The Heart, Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean”

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

I listened to the podcast and enjoyed it:

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge’s poem of a grim voyage in which a sailor shoots an albatross and is forced to tell the story of his crime forever.

More info, but I wanted to see the Dore Images.  Here is one:

Wikipedia

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss.[1] Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it is often considered a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.[2]

 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834

 

 

Social Work, Sociometry, & Psychodrama: Experiential Approaches for Group Therapists, Community Leaders, and Social Workers Dr. Scott Giacomucci, DSW, LCSW, BCD, FAAETS, PAT

Social Work, Sociometry, & Psychodrama:

Experiential Approaches for Group Therapists, Community Leaders, and Social Workers

Dr. Scott Giacomucci, DSW, LCSW, BCD, FAAETS, PAT

Link to the book:

Social Work, Sociometry, & Psychodrama: Experiential Approaches for Group Therapists, Community Leaders, and Social Workers Dr. Scott Giacomucci, DSW, LCSW, BCD, FAAETS, PAT

Yin Yang

I like my little sketch.

Yes No

Disturbing motive / reactive fear.

Hegel

In a living thing something dies and something is being born all the time.

new old