Alfred Adler

[woops]

how many "s"s can you count in this picture? most people get it wrong

 

[sus]

its a section of a painting from an old icelandic artist called erro. It has little meaning in this context beyond me liking the colour composition and not liking a big S

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It's my favorite avi around here

 

[luka]

Mine works cos it suits the scale it's clean and understandable it says plugged in

 

[Woebot]

Here's a great quote from Carl Jung which shows his shared turf with Adler: (saw himself as synthesising Freud and Adler as a matter of fact)

"The cause of the neuroses is the avoidance of legitimate suffering."

 

[constant escape]

A sort of callousing/shielding that is afforded by repression? Rather than going raw into the maelstrom?

 

[constant escape]

Raw as in a raw nerve, hypersensitive and prone to pathologies. Hyper being excessive, excessively sensitive and thus suboptimal by normative standards. Hypo also being suboptimal. Too much, and too little, both being suboptimal.

 

[constant escape]

Too sensitive, as if a certain information/signal bandwidth is wider than average, thus rendering the average processing protocols ineffective, leaving one to fend for themselves in terms of processing their reality. And this straying-from-the-path-because-the-path-is-insufficient is the grounds for pathology, perhaps.

edit: not sure if there is a semantic connection between path and pathology here. That juxtaposition was unintentional.

 

[constant escape]

And that explanation of neurosis does seem to work with the explanation of psychosis as "detachment from reality", but I don't know if psychosis is defined differently by any of the big psychoanalysts.

That is, you either conceal and callous the rawness in compliance with normative standards, and develop some kind of neurosis, or you disregard/split from the norms, which are established as reality, and thus detach from reality according to normative standards.

 

[luka]

My sense of it would be to do with avoidance rather than callousing

 

[luka]

A desperate increasing frantic effort at distraction, focusing anywhere but the source of the pain.