the talking cure

I am freaking out about David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method," coming out next year. The movie is based on Christopher Hampton's stage play "The Talking Cure," which explores Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung's relationship. It looks like there will also be some steamy sub plots about Sabina Spielrein, one of the first female analysts. Can't wait! This will definitely be a therapist field trip.

I have learned so much about my own history and evolution through the conversation between these two men- this morning, I stayed in bed until noon with my coffee and Jung's the archetypes and the collective unconscious. I am beginning to see my own integrative and creative cycles through archetypal energy more clearly. Right now is definitely a period of fiery initiation for me as I work towards my 3000 hours for MFT Liscensure. 

The symbolic quest starts with the Static Feminine; inert, indifferent, gestating and waiting, womb, receptive, yielding, holding, containing, emotion, collective, the moon, Mother... we have to break away from the mother in order to individuate and so it is with our drive, impulse and desire that we are able to separate and embody the Dynamic Masculine; warrior, vitality, fighting spirit, action, drive, aggression, challenge, striving for the assertion of individual separateness. We move from this into the Static Masculine through a period of fiery initiation- we have to burn a little bit and swallow some of our pride in order to achieve rank and position. This is the Father, boss, meaning, reason, discipline, law, order, authority, status, reputation and social Power. This position moves into the Dynamic Feminine through muse; venus, the urge to unite, contact, merging, lust, love, laughter, relatedness, the sacred marriage, eros, joy, pleasure, creativity, play, delight, spontaneity, fun. The maiden returns to the mother through a watery initiation- emersion or baptism, a return to wholeness, reconciliation, self acceptance and forgiveness.