Held
Trauma alone does not shatter the psyche. The psyche shatters itself through its own self defense system. ... This applies as much to a group’s trauma as it does to the individual’s. ... All of the group’s defenses are mobilized in the name of a self-care system which is designed to protect the injured divine child of the group identity. ... The rest of the world may see ... only the hardened front ... a ‘complex’ ... the psychological equivalent of ... biological systems such as those that carry out digestion or maintain blood pressure ... structuring and filtering our experience of ourselves and others. Thomas Singer We have to draw to us and drink down to the very dregs what, because of our complexes, we have held at a distance. CG Jung qtd in Singer. Quickly, without thinking good or evil, what is your original face before your parents were born? Gateless Gate , case 23 The pardalotes are back at the gourd nest for a fourth season. At the end of autumn I looked i...