Exposed and vulnerable
Along the Chuburna beach, January 2009
Walking along the beach provides many interesting subjects for the camera. I don’t know what this object is, I do know that it is out of its element and because of that, it is deteriorating. Stranded on the beach, it is exposed to the salt and water and sun, all of which, eats away at the surface and likely within the structure itself. I guess that we are the same when we become exposed, when out persona falls away. This is part of the danger in doing inner work. Rather than honouring the inner contents, the archetypes that manifest within the psyche, we allow the inner contents to spill out, contents which once removed from their natural element, begin to act as an acid rendering the psyche fractured and toxic.
I think we often do inner work, because of what has started spilling out, or silently screaming to be let out. “Honouring” I think is the keyword here, and often missed by therapist and layperson.
Brigit
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writeandcreate
17 Jan 09 at 4:03 PM
Yes, it is about honouring the work and the person doing the work. Any good Jungian analyst or psychotherapist knows this. Unfortunately, the therapists who simply look at cause and effect and behaviour modification miss this element. Their work is more like trying to use a bandaid to fix the psyche.
retiredeagle
19 Jan 09 at 2:39 PM