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Now the garden was long and the visibility poor, the way
the dark of the ground seems to drink the light of the sky,
but that twig in his hand was gold. And then he plucked
a pear from a branch. – we grew Fondante d’Automne –
and it sat in his palm, like a lightbulb. On.
I thought to myself, Is he putting fairy lights in the tree?
This relationship was examined in a somewhat silly but quite entertaining film called, “A Dangerous Method” where Keira Knightley plays Sabina Nikolayevna Spielrein. Reading about her at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabina_Spielrein-I think she deserves her own film as one of the first women psychoanalysts. J.A.C.Brown in “Freud and the Post-Freudians” (1979) is very good on this topic. An interesting posting- many thanks.
On 27 February 1907, at Berggasse 19 in Vienna, Sigmund Freud fell in love. The object of his affection was Carl Gustav Jung: 19 years younger than Freud, the young psychiatrist was already the clinical director of the prestigious Burghölzli Hospital and a professor at the University of Zurich. Jung had gained international recognition for his invention of the word-association test, and his practice was renowned for its gentle incisiveness. But when Jung read Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), he was startled by Freud’s theory, and decided to go to talk with the man himself. And talk they did: for 13 hours, they plumbed the depths of the unconscious, the methods of psychoanalysis, and the analysis of dreams.
Freud was hugely impressed by Jung’s intellect, but his desire to sweep Jung into the psychoanalytic world was also politically motivated. As an intellectual movement, early psychoanalysis resembled a political party…
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Mamas Orchideen im Wintergarten, Zeichnung und Foto von Susanne Haun (c) VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019
Im Wintergarten des Hauses meiner Eltern stehen die in voller Pracht blühenden Orchideen meiner verstorbenen Mutter. Ein Käfer hat es sich auf einer Blüte bequem gemacht. Ideal, um von mir im Skizzenbuch festgehalten zu werden.
Vor kurzem bloggte Gerda Ihre Olivenbäume (siehe hier). Sie hat sie in letzter Zeit immer wieder und wieder gezeichnet (siehe hier). Das inspirierte mich, die Fotos zum Anlass zu nehmen, ebenfalls Olivenbäume zu zeichnen. Leider fehlte mir beim Zeichnen der Geruch der Oliven und der Wind, der die leisen Töne des Blätterrauschens erzeugt. Nichtsdestotrotz zeiche ich euch hier die Skizzenbuchseiten:
Die Idee von gestern gefällt mir auch heute noch. So klingt meine aktuelle Stimmung in der musikalischen Umsetzung von Disneyland after Dark:
Bezogen auf Depressionen und die damit bei mir einhergehenden Stimmungsschwankungen, Phasen von Hoch und Tiefs und den cremigen Grauzonen irgendwo dazwischen, könnte man Tage wie diese für mich wie folgt umreissen, inklusive Handlungsmöglichkeiten:
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I’ve just turned 50 – woohoo! To celebrate arriving at such a grand old age, my family and I went to Iceland (the country, not the frozen food emporium – that would make for a very different post). Given that I’ve spent the past few years reading every Icelandic crime novel I can get my mitts on, and gazing daily, at Icelandic webcams, I was more than a little excited.
We spent a week there, the first few days Air B&Bing in Reykjavik, and then we hoped to head north for a few days depending on the weather. Luckily, we did manage to do that, although driving in the snowy north was pretty scary, and probably added a bit more ‘snow’ to the colour of my hair.
Anyway, here are some of my pics from our stay in the south.
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Great photographs! Thanks!
Sehr süß-Danke
Foto: ©Constanze
~ Krokus ~
Hingestreut auf Weg und Wiesen
singt er flüchtig zart sein Lied,
Küsse üppiger nie sprießen,
was der Winter starr vermied.
Und ins Blau verliern sich Säume
grauer Erde, blasser Bäume,
schmiegen still sich wie im Bann
zaghaft an das Neue an.
Doch, wer mag es noch verwehren,
Krokus leuchtet unverwandt,
legt ein Lächeln übers Land
und verschwendet sich in Meeren.
Schritt für Schritt vom Licht betört,
ewig kündend ein Erwecken,
das der ganzen Welt gehört,
wenn sich Schalen, Hände strecken!
©Constanze
Any connection with Thorben/Forbes? Thanks!
Torin is a male given name with several possible etymologies:
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Any connection with Fay? Interesting.
Freya is the goddess of love, death, beauty, fertility and war in Norse mythology, and the twin sister of Freyr. The name comes from Old Norse freyja meaning “lady” which comes from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ (lady, wife of a lord) which derives from a PIE root word. There seems to be some thought that Freya and Frigg were once the same goddess (Frigg being the wife of Odin and goddess of marriage, childbirth, and the earth).
Origin: Proto-Indo-European
Variants:
Male forms:
The 
first large-scale retrospective of R.B Kitaj‘s work in fourteen years is currently on at the Jewish Museum Berlin.
R.B Kitaj (1932 – 2007), an American Jewish artist, spent almost 30 years in England. Like his friends David Hockney and Lucien Freud, he turned to figurative art in the 1960s.
His work is highly referential and collagic, drawing on a wide range of literary and artistic sources. He frequently uses newspaper cuttings and other texts in his work. Literature played a significant role in his life – he was a “self-professed bibliomaniac” and part of his huge collection of books are on display in the exhibition. The painting above is entitled ‘Unpacking My Library’, alluding to an essay by Walter Benjamin.
Kitaj’s circle of friends included philosophers, writers, poets and other artists. He drew from their work, and also represented them in his paintings. Below, ‘Two London Painters’, shows…
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