{"id":69,"date":"2011-09-16T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/?p=69"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:47:59","slug":"the-darkness-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/the-darkness-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Darkness Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"831\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2011-09-005-831x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70\" style=\"width:272px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2011-09-005-831x1024.jpg 831w, https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2011-09-005-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2011-09-005-768x946.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2011-09-005.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Depressed in China<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The darkness is back with a vengeance. It is getting harder and harder to contain it. I am so thankful that I am able to keep it hidden from view from my students when I am teaching, and from my colleagues and friends when we are socialising. However, my wife knows. She always knows. However, there is nothing that we can do about it, such as my returning to proper Jungian psychoanalysis while we are here in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of our different teaching schedules, at least one class [an hour and a half sessions] each day I have at home in our apartment alone. I spend that time writing for the most part, usually for my Jungian psychology blog site. And, I am nude. I have been reading a book suggested by my wife [I have quite a few of my psychology books here in China] that focuses on self-psychology. That book has opened up a can of worms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know where this is going, but I haven\u2019t any choice but to go with it, or disappear into the darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The darkness is back with a vengeance. It is getting harder and harder to contain it. I am so thankful that I am able to keep it hidden from view from my students when I am teaching, and from my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/the-darkness-is-back\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}