The Physically Sick Soul E-Book

Günter von Hummel

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Deutsch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Seitenzahl: 82

Beschreibung

Mostly physical symptoms are rooted in the soul. Neither different methods of medical sciences nor methods of psychology have been able to enter the central connecting point of both the sciences. Both systems of sciences have so far not been able to decipher the psycho-soul relation. In this brochure the author is illustrating a method which deals with the central issue derived from psychoanalysis and supporting techniques of relaxation treatment. Both theory and practice of this uniquely new method has been published and presented in many books and lectures by the author.

Leseprobe

The picture on the book cover depicts a Tranguloid which illustrates a mathematical calculation and incorporates a geometrical form meandering through topological surface. One could imagine the human body and soul to be just as intertwined and knotted up as in the illustration, hence so complex and difficult to recognize. Just so are the diverse psychological methods as in psychoanalysis on the one hand and different systems of meditative relaxation on the other. There are diverse, multifaceted scientific methods in dealing with this complexity and requires an experienced handling of structures, to open up and finally to reshape and mould it into a new form. I have named this procedure as ‘Analytic Psychocatharsis” because this method contains the form which entwines its way and connects the psychoanalytic insight of analysis with the purifying experience of catharsis (cleansing, meditative)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Preliminary practice

Aspects of Psychoanalysis

Reapplication of Exercise

The Essence of the Formula-Words

The second exercise and the essence of the Pass-Words

Simplified summary and a further

Formula-Word

Bibliography

1. Introduction

In this brochure I propose to illustrate a clear and simple concept of a psychotherapeutic method which satisfies the demands of modern scientific claims in its decisive precision (namely: Analytic Psychocatharsis). Perhaps this has a remote connection to I. H. Schulz`s method of ‘autogenic training” especially in the so called ‘advanced level’. In a similar way this method can be learnt and practiced at home if one studies the prospect carefully. Of course there is also the possibility of personal initiation. Nonetheless the reader should be prepared that the reading of the text is not so easy and completely unproblematic. This brochure does not deal with the usual treatises; which for example suggest positive thinking as a way of solution for depression resulting or as a consequence of false thought. This is not a booklet providing warm hearted advices and simple solutions. The method introduced in this prospect not only differentiates but also distances itself from even more demanding methods such as the so called ‘alternative’ psychotherapeutic practices.

There are innumerable methods as mentioned below but often have the disadvantage of offering easy solutions to complex problems. Methods like different forms of meditation as a form of relaxation or consultation in the form of conversation have also their limitation. Though apparently clear, simple and an easy way of resolving problems these diverse diversion therapies are not professional or rather not based on sufficient scientific knowledge.

Psychoanalysis is one of such methods that acquires the criteria expected of scientific methods namely, precision; even though the theoretical background and therapeutic procedure is very complex and complicated. Though psychoanalysis is a lengthy process of long duration and quite circumstantial it is nonetheless scientifically precise. My procedure in Analytic Psychocatharsis certainly achieves simplicity as well as clarity as in all authentic scientific methods through a starting point that one finds in several domains be it culture, ‘spirituality” or different sciences. Much of it is based on psychoanalysis yet the essential element, the very foundation stands on its own right and is not so complex or complicated. (At a later stage certain theoretical aspects necessitates detailed explanation and may be of interest to some readers but for practicing this experience or method it is not essential for each individual to delve into this.) Hence the theoretical part of the text is entirely optional and is left to the user to decide for oneself. The intellectual approach is not necessary by satisfying a scientific ambition but for security and confidence in the method.

To reveal a clue in advance at what is to follow I want to point out that Analytic Psychocatharsis does not hide behind the facade of preconceived concepts or pre-given notions of meditative concentrative methods that shows the way or promises to find the true solution. Neither does this method adopt the classic form of ‘free associations’ practiced in psychoanalysis where the patient is compelled to re account spontaneous thought and ideas sometimes rather absurd, perhaps somewhat whimsical or even deeply embarrassing. This is due to the fact that the unconscious itself is embedded within the deep crevices of the mind/soul and contains or hides the profound truth leading to a solution. The Analytic Psychocatharsis works with formula-like word formulations, that carries several meanings (Formula-Words) and due to this it is purely formal, purely structural and contains within itself the solution; whose truth the practicing user must personally experience and deepen to gain both, namely Solution / transformation (catharsis) and Truth (analysis). All that is needed to achieve this is that the practicing user sits relaxed and reposed and in thought practices the formulations, and after that in the second exercise allows the answers to arise from the unconscious.

Briefly: Analytic Psychocatharsis responds to the elementary question concerning transformation involved with the quest of healing and to find the real answer. This is the aim and target of all therapeutic methods to find a truth that enhances a transformation and heals. The truth is very often hidden in the question placed. The answer is very often concealed in the question if not completely but at least partly and certainly. Hence every question contains the answer though not obvious at first glance or revealed in the surface at face value but nonetheless in an authentic scientific manner. Since the unconscious has its own dynamic and behavioral pattern (The request placed in the question itself is not fulfilled as it appears in the foreground and predominates in the form of a wish or request that is contained in the question. In other words the request is not granted because the question proposed is too ostensible, or too wish oriented)

But when I put a question or replace a request by a formula or word- formation my own unconscious, which has its own protective mechanism and often guards itself from outside intrusion, will be compelled to provide an answer. The unconscious working of the mind includes the essential truth arising from the depths of the soul. The answers are constituted, included within the realms of the unconscious work of truth. Or the request is returned in a contrapuntal form (since the unconscious has its own way of working, as Freud formulated it anticathexis) yet the request is fulfilled in a precise form. The purpose of this method presented here is to fulfill the request, to find the true sense of the inner meaning rising from the depths of the unconscious. The aim of this text is to find the real answer or the truth from the unconscious working of the mind in a precise scientific manner, a quest which is not unscientific.

The just mentioned basic elements consist of two basic principles. The two basic principles or drives are further developed and worked out in psychoanalysis and which according to J. Lacan works similarly in every human being. The pattern and the principle is the same:

(a) In an elementary drive of perception named / termed just by Freud as the scopic- or looking drive (scope /observation).

(b) A similar basic drive a drive of expression named by Lacan as the speaking drive (invocative drive).1

Basically the drives deal with that what Goethe has described so: ‘Two souls alas! Are dwelling in my breast; and each is fain to leave its brother. The one, fast clinging, to the world adheres with clutching organs (scopic drive), in love's sturdy lust; the other strongly lifts itself from dust to yonder high, ancestral spheres (speaking drive).” These drives (pulsations, powers) are conceptualized in psychoanalysis not as directly experienced or even practicably lived out. This becomes apparent to us when we are conscious of the form. When we are confronted and faced with the physical representation of the forms depicted in ideas, imagination, feelings, fantasies and symptoms. A certain problem begins to crop up here.

As psychoanalytic methods point out man defends himself against too strong forces and difficult endeavours, which the controlling intensity of these drives seems to incorporate. In other words man tends to protect himself by creating emotional ‘defense mechanism’ against such power or drives in the form of concealing, clamming-up, restraints, obstructions and blockings. The aim of psychoanalysis is to unlock the ‘defense mechanism’ and reveal the hindrance or obstruction and finally to find a solution. Often a very long-winded process is needed to break down the resistance, to unlock the hidden door of the mind, consuming long hours of analysis, hence circumstantial in its method.

Also in Analytic Psychocatharsis these factors have to be considered: the connections between restraints, defense mechanism and the power- drives. But the procedure is entirely different in this method, it is reversed here. Here the power-drives will be directly experienced, be it psychical, yes even psychosomatic though the emphasis is not so much on the ‘defenses’ or blockings but rather on a formal direct manner, restricted and governed by the principle of form. The defense mechanism or restraints in this case i.e. Analytic Psychocatharsis, is avoided, circumvented and even leveled out. Nonetheless what is defended, resisted will be substantially comprehended, considered and worked out.

To represent this in simplified terms, the effect these basic elements have (power – drives) that I have just mentioned I would like to name the scopic drive as Id Rays. At this stage one is arriving to the point of clarity, namely a comprehending structure of power- drive which is experienced directly and immediately by every human being. All that is required is that one sits down quietly for a while, undisturbed from outer distractions, inert, concentrating in a relaxed manner with closed or half open eyes. The emphasis is on the effortlessness and concentration of the moment where the appearance of the phenomena Rays.