Psychotherapy: Eros and magic.
Plato believed that Eros is the desire that can lead us to a Higher truth wrapped within mystery, and Jung agreed. Meanwhile Freud had grabbed the scissors snipping and was cruelly at Eros... until there was nothing but blood and feathers falling around him like rubies and snow. I am certain that many of psychotherapy's best theories and explanations are a continuation of much older concepts and ideas - repackaged so as to appear new. So when ever Kit talked about fantasy 'with a PH '' I was trying to recall Ioan P Couliano's book: Eros and Magic in the Renaissance. Of course I wanted our sessions to lead us both to 'higher truths', and encounters with deeper mystery. This is the promise of love after all! But Kit, though seeped in mediaeval lore, and with a comprehensive knowledge of Christianity regarded therapy as disconnected from eros - or he purposefully kept our conversations so. I mentioned Couliano several times in our sessions, and Kit ...