Facets of a Diamond – Blog
The great physician and psychoanalyst Georg Groddeck believed that in his unconscious was the patient's desire for disease – as well as for health. And he also believed that in his own unconscious was his desire for the patient's health to then actuate the patient's desire.
But what of the Tao – or whatever Groddeck would have called It? I'm sure, him being as he declared “wild,” he did so believe, but chose to not say lest he be deemed “too wild.”
In the tenth century, Li Cheng wrote in his On the Secrets of Landscape Painting that “the winter trees are resigned and deathlike.”
Dr. Diamond discusses one approach to helping a child through their parents’ divorce, and also the best possible attitude the parents can have in order to help their children during this time.
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The term found object was applied to Dada art, in particular Marcel Duchamp’s urinal (actually possibly “made” by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven).
As a tribute to him – to the Baroness, I have a toilet displayed on my verandah deck. Every day I find it – no, it finds me and I return the finding.
Which comes first – the find or the being found?
I look around in my living room. Books – so many, all with titles, a Butsudan, rocks, pebbles, shells – so many. Four couches with cushions, lamps, bits of wire, pottery, paintings, a tapestry, twigs, a card proclaiming “Music” in Chinese, a Japanese lantern ……
Every photograph should be, in a sense, a picture of Arcadia – “an area of central Greece whose inhabitants legendarily enjoyed their music and dancing undisturbed by war and toil."
Dr. Diamond discusses the phenomenon of brain misprocessing, and how in severe cases it can lead criminal minds to believe that what they are doing is right.
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Let’s look at three words:
Beat: to strike, to punish by hitting or whipping, to break by repeated blows, to defeat.
From the root BHAV, to strike – hence also baton and buttock!!
Mold: to give shape to, to guide.
From the root MED, to take appropriate measures.
Caress: a gentle touch, tenderness.
From the root KA, to like – hence also charity and cherish.Dr. Diamond discusses how he developed his unique approach to the creation of healing songs. From the “Music for Healing” series of informal talks.
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Michelangelo was aware of his “I,” his ego, when he painted, just as we are when we look at his paintings. But when we go back and look at Paleolithic art, for instance that of the Lascaux caves, we realize that these were not the result of