Updated, April 7th, 2014
I will not stop, I will not rest,
Until Chaos and Order,
Dionysus and Apollo,
Diogenes and Alexander the Great,
Plato and Aristotle,
Science and Art,
Science and Spirituality,
The Enlightenment and The Romantic Movement,
Hegel and Schopenhauer,
Hegel and Kierkegaard,
Hegel and Nietzsche,
The Phenomenology of Spirit and The Birth of Tragedy,
Construction(ism) and Deconstruction(ism),
Deconstruction(ism) and Reconstruction(ism),
Thesis and Anti-thesis,
Breuer and Freud,
Freud and Adler,
Freud and Jung,
Anna Freud and Melanie Klein,
Masson and Anna Freud,
Masson and Eissler,
Masson and Sigmund Freud,
Masson and The Psychoanalytic Establishment,
Can dance together again in Hegel's Hotel,
My metaphysical and hopefully one day physical....
Meeting place of convergent and divergent, integrative minds and spirits,
Looking for that special homeostatic-dialectic balance...
Between Unity and Individuality...
Between Idea and Counter-Idea...
Without becoming defensive, scared, angry, righteously blinded...
By what challenges our most personal values...
We need a 'Phenomenology of Spirit'...
That challenges our spirit...
That challenges our hearts and minds...
To look at life through an opposite perspective, an opposite paradigm...
A philosophical-psychological box outside of our philosophical box...
A Place of Dialogue and Debate For The Integration-Seeking, Harmonizing, Balancing,,
Synthesizing and Synergizing Spirit --
Personally, the lifeblood of my soul.
Ah, but it is so easy to look at life through our own eyes...
But through an other's eyes...
That is more challenging....
'Seek first to understand, then to be understood,
Stephen Covey wrote that...
Inside 'The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'...
Similarly, I seek synergy inside...
Hegel's Hotel....
Where (A More Liberal-Minded) Masson and Any Liberal-Minded Psychoanalyst...
Might Walk Into the Same Lobby....
And contemplate the possibility of an integration...
Between Freudian Trauma...
And Freudian Fantasy Theory...
Both partly representing the intricacies...
The convergences and divergences of the human mind...
A dialectic trauma-fantasy theory that synthesizes black and white in that middle zone of gray....
But more than this,
A 'Thesis-Anti-Thesis-Synthesis' Hotel,
Where opposing theorists
Can enter with the willingness and open-mindedness to be ready to think...
Both inside and outside their own theoretical box...
And not go ballistic when someone disagrees with them...
Or presents something so uniquely unorthodox and new....
As to take a wrecking ball to everything that we have previously learned...
A theory is a representation of reality that can be changed...
Or modified...
In a single moment's change of outlook....
Superseded by a better theory...
Often, an imaginative, integrative theory...
That bridges two opposing theories in the middle...
Like the 'particle-wavelength dialectic theory'...
Splitting the difference between particle theory and wavelength theory...
And productively leading to 'Quantum Physics and Mechanics'....
So too will the intercourse....
Of Freud's Bipolar Trauma and Fantasy Theories...
Lead to the genetics....
Of what I will call 'Greater Classical Psychoanalysis....
Or integrate again, say between Greater Classical Psychoanalysis, Object Relations, and Self Psychology...
And now we have a 'Quantum Leap for Psychoanalysis..'...
Or what I will call...'Quantum' Psychoanalysis...
When opposing ideas, theories, perspectives, paradigms...
Metaphorically writing...
Copulate....(how Freudian!)
Oftentimes, you get a better breed of idea, theory, perspective, paradigm...
Than the 'polar-less' ideas and theories you left behind...
Thus Spoke...
Heraclitus, Lao Tse...
Hegel, Darwin..
Derrida....
The 'yin' and the 'yang' of human existence...
The estrogen and testosterone of human biology...
Competing, co-operating, breeding, loving, hating...
The paradoxes within psychoanalysis...
Need to match...
The paradoxes in human existence...
One minute I love you...
The next minute I hate you...
How do we deal with the ambivalence of 'love-hate'?
Great energy stems from great tension between opposites...
Exploding in love...
And/or exploding in hatred...
Where doves fly...
Or doves cry...
-- dgb, March 28, 2014
Happy Birthday, Jeffrey Masson!
