"Man is the only creature who can see his own death coming; and, when he does, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. He prepares for death by freeing himself from mundane goals and attachments, and turns instead to the cultivation of his own interior garden. Both Jung and Freud exemplify this change. They each survived into their eighties, and both almost abandoned interest in psychotherapy in favour of ideas and theories about human nature. In old age, there is a tendency to turn from empathy toward abstraction; to be less involved in life's dramas, more concerned with life's patterns."
Anthony Storr, in Solitude — A Return to the Self
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do despojamento
Regresso à origem
"In our novels, it is music, among all the arts, that isolates the individual from society of his contemporaries, makes him aware of his separateness and, finally, provides a personal significance to his life regardless of his social or even personal loyalties. It is the one measure of survival which never fails."
Alex Aronson citado por Anthony Storr, in Solitude — A Return to the Self
danos
"Research indicates that undesirable changes in a person's life like death of a spouse, divorce, loss of a job, personal injury or a prison sentence are correlated with subsequent illness to a significant extent if they are perceived by the subject as uncontrollable. It has also been shown that people who feel that their lives are mainly controlled by external forces suffer more from illness in response to stressful events than do those who have a strong sense of control over their lives."
Anthony Storr, in Solitude — A Return to the Self
da vida e da obra III
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| Rudyard Kipling |
Traduzido livremente de "Solitude", de Anthony Storr
da vida e da obra II
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| Beatrix Potter |
Beatrix Potter foi filha única até aos 5 anos. Foi educada por uma ama escocesa, almoçava nos 'aposentos das crianças' e era levada a passear de tarde. Nunca foi para a escola. Nunca lhe foi dada a oportunidade de conviver com outras crianças. Os pais não tinham o hábitos de receber convidados. O ambiente doméstico era rigorosamente respeitável e não se faziam quaisquer esforços no sentido de satisfazer as necessidades das crianças. Um mausoléu vitoriano, como lhe chamou um primo seu.
Traduzido livremente de "Solitude", de Anthony Storr
da vida e da obra I
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| Edward Lear |
Este senhor, que eu sempre admirei muito, foi o 20º filho de seus pais! Não há orçamento familiar que aguente tamanha prol! Aos 4 anos de idade, na sequência do endividamento de seu pai, a família foi obrigada a separar-se e o pequeno Edward foi entregue aos cuidados de sua irmã mais velha, que o rejeitava. Edward acabou por não desenvolver laços de proximidade com seus pais e a partir dos seus 7 anos passou a ser vítima de recorrentes ataques de depressão, aos quais ele chamava "the morbids". Este seu estado psicológico foi posteriormente agravado pela epilepsia e pela asma. Tornou-se um adulto solitário, predominantemente homossexual, provavelmente nunca tendo consumado os seus desejos. Quanto ao seu potencial criativo, a sua obra fala por si.
Traduzido livremente de "Solitude", de Anthony Storr
oh p'ra mim!
"People vary considerably in the degree to which they can be their true selves in company. Some enviable mortals seem able, from their earliest years, to express whatever they are feeling in the presence of comparative strangers without fear of being rebuffed, disapproved of, contradicted, or made to feel foolish. It seems likely that this kind of security springs from repeated experiences of the kind which Winnicott describes: of having been able, as an infant, to be alone in the presence of the mother without anxiety; and, in later childhood, of feeling loved and unconditionally accepted."
Anthony Storr, in Solitude, A Return to the Self
Solitude / da privacidade
"Contemporary Western culture makes the peace of solitude difficult to attain. The telephone is an ever-present threat to privacy. In cities, it is impossible to get away from the noise of motor traffic, aircraft, or railways. [...] Hence, the menace of 'Muzak' has invaded shops, hotels, aircraft, and even elevators. Some car drivers describe driving as relaxing, simply because they are alone and temporarily unavailable to others. [...] The current popularity of techniques like 'transcendental meditation' may represent an attempt to counterbalance the absence of silence and solitude which the modern urban environment inflicts upon us. [...] Removing oneself voluntarily from one's habitual environment promotes self-understanding and contact with those inner depths of being which eludeone in the hurly-burly of day-to-day life.
... e o prazer de ler no café, digo eu.
... e nem falemos na invasão da privacidade causada pela incorrecta utilização das redes sociais.
Não confundir solitude com loneliness.
da aquiescência / sim papá, sim mamã / O Rei Vai Nu
"Throughout most of his professional life, Winnicott was particularly preocupied with whether an individual's experience was authentic or inauthentic. Many of the patients whom he treated had, for one reason or another, learned as children to be over-compliant; that is, to live in ways which were expected of them, or which pleased others, or which were designed not to offend others. These are the patients who build up what Winnicott called a 'false self'; that is, a self which is based upon compliance with the wishes of others, rather than being based upon the individual's own true feelings and instinctive needs. Such an individual ultimately comes to feel that life is pointless and futile, because he is merely adapting to the world rather than experiencing it as a place in which his subjective needs can find fulfilment."
Anthony Storr, in Solitude - A Return to the Self
Sobre "compliance"
Bairro
"In the course of daily life, we habitually encounter many people with whom we are not intimate, but who nevertheless contribute to our sense of self. Neighbours, postmen, bank clerks, shop assistants, and many others may all be familiar figures with whom we daily exchange friendly greetings, but are generally persons about whose lives we know very little. Yet, if such a person disapears and is replaced by another, we feel some sense of loss, however transient. We say that we have become 'used to' so-and-so; but what we miss is mutual recognition, acknowledgement of each other's existence, and thus some affirmation, however slight, that each reciprocally contributes something to life's pattern. Relationships of this kind play a more important role in the lives of most of us than is generally recognized."
Anthony Storr, in Solitude - A Return to the Self
das relações humanas
"Transference, in the sense of the patient's total emotional attitude or series of attitudes toward the analyst, is therefore seen as a central feature of analytical treatment, not as a relic from the past, nor as a 'curse', nor even, as Freud later regarded it, as 'a powerful ally', because of the power which it gave him to modify the patient's attitudes. Today a psycho-analyst will usually spend a good deal of his time detecting and commenting upon the way in which his patients react to himself, the analyst: whether they are fearful, compliant, agressive, competitive, withdrawn, or anxious. Such attitudes have their history, which needs to be explored. But the emphasis is different. The analyst studies the analysand's distorted attitude to himself, and by this means perceives the distortions in the analysand's relationships with others. To do this effectively implies the recognition that there is a real relationship in the here-and-now, and that analysis is not solely concerned with the events of early childhood."
Anthony Storr, in Solitude, A return to the Self
