Posted by alexandra_k on October 7, 2013, at 16:39:44
In reply to Lou's reply-nvrfrget » Dr. Bob, posted by Lou Pilder on October 7, 2013, at 3:18:00
I don't have much exposure to Jewish culture. There was one Jewish kid at high school. He was just Shawn. Who was (oddly) passionate about Opera. Who would walk around the school practicing Paverotti. I do believe... That as a grown up... He got to stand in for him once. Anyway, he was just Shawn. There wasn't enough of a minority for him to get to be stereotyped as part of a minority. It is only now in hindsight that I realize he was Jewish. I never connected it with the Holocaust, even, though we learned about that when I was, like 11. 'Everybody loves Raymond'... 'The nanny'. I still don't really get it.
Apparently we have the Jewish community to thank for psychoanalysis. Other things too, of course, but psychoanalysis. I've been finding stuff on trauma of a culture because of events in the cultural past... Dr Bob certainly isn't the first to suggest it... Most of self-psychology these days seems very much part of current Jewish culture / devoted to Jewish concerns...
Lou...
I sometimes am self-destrictive. Irritable. Hypervigilant. If I actually am in the middle of being any of these I would probably sooner chew your face off than admit to it. Like how when I'm irritable that my period is due I simply cannot see that it is until my period actually comes and the mood lifts.
Um... Does that make you think less of me?
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