Introducing myself
As a biologist I studied the notion of life, but I am a layman in Psychology. Working on highschool as a teacher, wrestling with adolescents in "Jugend forscht", playing myself in the upper league of volleyball I was working as a coach too. This went for years until life changed it heavily. "This filmreel has been expired" said a dream.
In reading ethnologists (Lyotard and others) I first realized Jung, then "the Jungians and the Post Jungians". For years I tried to use my leisure time for joining lectures.
In starting with reading Giegerich everything went different. The first essay I was confronted with was "Das Bewusstsein, der zweite Schöpfer der Welt" (Eranos 1986, Vol.55). Then the second one was "Die Gegenwart als Dimension der Seele" (Analyt.Psy. Vol.9, Nr.2, 1978). Both resonated heavily in dreaming and further thinking. Since then I was cofronted with this " not having soul but being soul".
I am not a psychotherapist. For years I was involved with this "dance on the lifeless", with the notion of life. But all of a sudden I had to realize this "dance to the power of two". Since then (now for years) I am in the grip of being tuned into something that cannot be fully grasped. It is like a never ending story that initiates ("ignites") your thinking again and again. Reading, rereading, again and again Giegerich, Mogenson, and now some members of PDI, I humbly had to learn that grasping often occurs "on its own accord".
What is this "fire within" that drives one to be psychologically minded?
For a long time I didn't dare to become a member of PDI. There always echoed this "No admission!". In the end I decided to go this step first and foremost because it gives me the opportunity to say THANK YOU !!! to Giegerich, Mogenson, Sandoval, Barreto, and others for their puplications, which often become openings, and sometimes occuring as fate too, -" zum Fürchten und zum Lieben", "it is not for sissies", you can get your fingers burnt over this texts.
And then there is my bad English. Reading is always possible, writing more difficult, but speaking is different.
For this New Year 2023 I am wishing all the members of PDI "theFire" of "soul-making"!
Dear John,
Suddenly for me PDI becomes a little bit closer, more familiar when I hear from your beginnings in sports too. For a long time being involved in the basic research of biology, I now realize, that this was helpful as a pathway into PDI- thinking too, and into Hegel's "der Geist als Wühler".
Thank you for your warm welcome!
Best
Christel