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    Psychoanalysis and Meditation: Brochure on the theory and practice of a new self-therapeutic procedure
    Psychoanalysis and Meditation: Brochure on the theory and practice of a new self-therapeutic procedure
    Psychoanalysis and Meditation: Brochure on the theory and practice of a new self-therapeutic procedure
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    Psychoanalysis and Meditation: Brochure on the theory and practice of a new self-therapeutic procedure

    By Günter von Hummel

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    Linguistics and modern geometry today enable a connection between psychoanalysis and meditation that can also be experienced in practice. At the centre of such a connection lie the so-called formula-words which contaim several meanings in a single stroke of writing. Exactly in this form the unconscious is built up, which can be awakened, recognized and integrated into psychic life through meditative exercises.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateJan 28, 2019
    ISBN9783748162179
    Psychoanalysis and Meditation: Brochure on the theory and practice of a new self-therapeutic procedure
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    Günter von Hummel

    Dr. v. Hummel ist Arzt und Psychoanalytiker und hat des neue psychotherapeutische Verfahren, das er Analytische Psychokatharsis genannt hat, in zahlreichen Vorträgen und Büchern veröffentlicht.

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      Psychoanalysis and Meditation - Günter von Hummel

      The image on the cover page shows a so-called formula word (written on the image of the brain) which is at the centre of the procedure described in this book. It contains different meanings read from different letters of this Latin formulation, a structure that corresponds exactly to that of the unconscious. If one exercises such a formula word meditatively and repeatedly, the unconscious must release its own meaning. So in a few lines almost everything worth knowing about this book has been said, which should not prevent you from reading it anyway.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction to the topic

      Psychoanalysis / Meditation

      First exercise of the Analytical Psychocatharsis

      Second exercise of the Analytic Psychocatharsis

      Conclusions

      I. Theoretical Introduction

      Psychoanalysis and meditation are not contradictory. As in one of the usual meditations, the psychoanalyst in his work must also go within himself and abandon himself to the initially unknown darkness as the meditator does.Freud called this an equal attention, with and from which the therapist should listen to his client. The demand for such a passivity meant that the therapist in this moment cannot (or should not) think rationally and logically. But he is awake, oriented towards the statements of the patient, but still almost in light meditation. For it is important to hear the nuances in the speech of his patients and not the deliberately expressed arguments.

      The therapist therefore listens to the completely free, spontaneous flow of speech (free association) of his patient and has to pay attention to the small fluctuations, stagnations, slips of the tongue, but also to the peculiarities of dreams and fantasies told. In this way he can filter out hidden and repressed meanings, relate them to the therapeutic process and interpret them. Freud his self also expressed himself with regard to equaly suspended attention in such a way that the analyst should turn his unconscious to the patient as a receiving organ.¹ This sounds a little strange. For Freud could not quite clearly define how this kind of virgin conception was to take place, yet interpretations and interpretations are given from the context.

      With the help of meditation all this is easier to understand. In a meditation one lets the spontaneous ideas, the free associations of psychoanalysis, pass by more pictorially. One must allow oneself to be equally attentive, i.e. in the same way as the therapist also handles it in psychoanalysis. But one now waits (with the help of an exercise) until a meaning imposes itself of its own accord, i.e. directly from the unconscious, because it has an - even if not yet complete - interpretation, interpretation.It is entirely up to the structure of the exercise how it comes about that in meditative procedures such interpretations come about from the unconscious. However, the similarities between psychoanalysis and meditation are visible in the form of these two processes (equaly supended attention and free association). In meditative procedures they are usually given other names.

      In simple terms, then, one could say that in psychoanalysis the therapist and client meditate together and then interpret the meditated thing together, while the adept who learns a pure meditation does the same with the pure something in front of his inner eye, with the command of his teacher, perhaps with a formula, the process of his breath or something similar. He converses more directly, but also more spartanly with his own unconscious, by putting aside all personal feelings and thoughts. It comes only high in the trance, which strongly pushes him to consciousness and he cannot stop. He converses more directly, but also more spartanly with his own unconscious, by putting aside all personal feelings and thoughts. It comes only high in the trance, which strongly pushes him to consciousness and he cannot stop it. Here, too, thoughts that come in between, trash insights, interrupt the contemplative procedure, just as the excessively free ideas in psychoanalysis also produce a trash of speech. For only a little can

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