Psychotherapy: Eros and magic.
Plato believed that Eros is the desire that can lead us to a Higher truth, and Jung agreed. But Freud grabbed the scissors, and began snipping 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 '' (seems to be most associated with Melanie Klein, and Freud) 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 Eros after all! But Kit, seemed to regarded therapy as disconnected from Eros - or he purposefully kept our conversations so. And of course I too did my best to avoid showing any presence, or the effect on me of Eros. ...