Living Symbol

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Day Opportunities (The Hopyard Services)– Symbol supports 54 people with learning disabilities in a range of meaningful activities to promote skills in work, learning and leisure operating out of 2 separate sites in Kent. Still today we can find modern parallels, for the language of the unconscious has changed much less than the language of human consciousness. Our students are testament to this, embodying the spirit of the musasabi in their journey of learning, growth, and impact.

After all,” they say, “we do have a group of leaders, and they are father figures, and they are the Self, and they will do it all right. The passive stance or thinking why doesn’t this happen to or for me is the clue that I think certain things are simply not possible.

Living symbols are constructed creatures of reified and reinforced magic, held together by glyphs, runes, and eldritch formulae.

An interesting example of a possible repetition compulsion was offered on our last webinar by a few students on the SGF programme. This shows that people need to project the Self onto some leader figure, But this is an infantile gesture and occurs because we want to remain children.Rather than pursuing the meaning of various individual motifs, could we approach this sub;ect of symbols by first examining one particular symbol in depth and then demonstrate how that symbol communicates the unconscious in an actual dream. My late analyst, the wonderful Fernand Schaub, once told me how he would frequently see male analysands, of older age who had spent their entire lives constantly busy achieving, and who now wondered what the purpose of all their activity was. It is the eternal kernel of the human psyche and has always represented the unique, eternal man within us. At the present time it is primarily used (and at times misused) for accessing information and communication.