DYNAMIC-SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHY


DIVORCE AND THE UNCONSCIOUS (*II*)

On Doodles And Parapraxes

The material was provided by dreams and by psychosomatic manifestations of his patients. The most important archetype pertaining to this painful story derived from a very unusual symptom: lack of sensibility in half the face. However,I'll start with dreams and with some probable archetypes manifested in them, before I proceed to describing the one that served as the platform for Jake's 'discovery' of man's sudden creation.
Allow me first start with a relatively simple episode that was not even related to a dream but to an unconscious act, and which may not even be related at all with archetypes. It happened when Jake was studying medicine and became interested in Freud's writings. Jake was sitting at the library, reading Freud; a classmate sat by his side and struck up a conversation, while engaged in doodling.
"Do you really believe that it is feasable to uncover the unconscious by the analysis of dreams and parapraxes?" he asked.
"To prove to you that it is indeed possible to decipher unconscious manifestations of the mind, I am going to tell you that at the moment you are worried by the delay in your girlfriend's menstruation." said Jake.
The fellow's reaction was to open his mouth, drop the pencil and ask, his voice aquiver, "How on earth...?" Jake, fearing that he might be tried as a latter-day sorcerer, clarified immediately:
"Take a look at your doodling."
The fellow examined it with negative results, yet prompted by Jake he visualized the drawn female reproductive organs. Jake explained that the unclear doodle reflected the rebellion of the unconscious against the attempted repression of the reality of a menacing unwanted pregnancy.{This situation at that prehistoric time when no oral anticonceptives existed prompted many friends of Jake to follow his intuitive suggestion of giving the girlfriends a large amount of estrogen the very day --or night-- that the sin was commited.}
Well, the fellow agreed with Jake --that is, with Sigmund-- and left in a daze. Jake was so exhilarated with his 'bull' interpretation, that when another classmate sat by his side, Jake took a fresh newspaper neatly folded and saying "Watch!" he send the newspaper fly with a swift rotating motion. It fell right on top of the narrow counter situated at a distance of about 1.5 meters, continued swirling and finally rested neatly in place.
The impassive classmate solemnly stated: "Two hits!" "Why two?" Jake asked. "Because you not only did something most improbable --you also announced that you were going to do it!" the classmate explained.

When Jake told me this 'newspaper story' first, so out of context with the central theme, he had the strange feeling of not knowing what moved him to do so, and rationalized that it just served to show that an upswing mood of self-esteem may work wonders at the sphere of delicate motor coordination. Yet he found later on that this recollection referred to a childhood experince that had tinted, in an incredible manner, his character...

PART III

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