'Wild' Psycho-Analysis" I

"... The great psychologist, Carl Jung, delved into this when he said: "Spiritus contra spiritum". This Latin phrase is what Jung said to the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous: Only "Spirit can counteract spirits". Jung felt that all adult neuroses are primarily a problem of our separation from Spirit. We literalize Spirit and drink it instead as "spirits". Alcohol briefly eases the existential pain of our separation from our spiritual nature, but it isn't a cure." from Using Neptune Homeopathically by Elizabeth Spring published at The Mountain Astrologer, p. 66, Issue #145 June/July 2009.

The 'causality' shown lately in my life brought me some books I was looking for awhile: the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, that I found somewhere online, (free versions from Lopez-Ballesteros' Spanish translation and the other from the Argentinian publisher) the same day celebrating Freud's birthday (May 6), was one of the causalities stuff.

The other one, it's a little bit more complex. Was like this, I was having an afternoon chat with a friend (which I cannot mention the name or place I know him for confidentiality reasons). We were talking (directly) about a problem (indirectly) that relates to the alcohol and the 'separation of the Spirit'. My friend and his partner have the problem with alcohol which they use it as an 'evasion' from the daily obfuscations, and from the memory of an early separation from the mother.

The alcoholism problem they have it's not yet incapacitating, although is very close to that point. I recommended they take therapy but I think it should be individual, because the one of the partner is deeply rooted from the childhood, and may be the other one too, but both have resistances which are highly organized and they are not easy to break.

In this "'wild psycho-analysis'" I was thinking how to help my friend and his partner but it looks like that their problem and situation it's far from my scope and training but they are a very interesting case for a therapist.

Salutem,