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Just a little quote from the man … C. G. Jung 🥰🥰🥰📖

So much food for thought...

"Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision."

"Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love."

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one “object” of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism

August wrap-up #stats
(Best month for my readings this year 🙂💪)

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (both nonfiction) Silent Spring & The Order of Time
⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2 I re-read the Heartstopper graphic novels

#AugustStats

This has never happened before: four ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reads in one month! All are pictured above and highly recommended!
Oh and my four star reads are very good as well so I‘ve had a fantastic month!

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Old god‘s time
Let the great world spin
The house of doors

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Fantasticland
The killing kind
Good night, Irene

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There were no windows
The other Eden

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The memory of animals

DNF
Land of lost borders

Well, Fromm is a philosopher - so to make his point he derives from aristotle to the bible and from spinoza to freud. I could have done without that part but surely appreciated some of his perspectives on the decline of love in the western world.

#14booksin14weeks A bit behind this wk.Malcolm is expert of letting what she finds tell the story.Her talks with “Aaron Green” a pseudonym, pulls back the curtain from the therapists point of view. The talking cure has its limits , that maybe the most they can do is “transforming hysterical misery into common unhappiness. “ may not be far off.How therapy often ends not at a breakthrough,but more mundane reasons.published in 1981 , Freudian

Just add book.

#MayMontage #Therapy No , I‘m not a therapist but I play one on TV ! Just kidding! I love a lot of 20th century literature which is heavily influenced by Freud & theories of psychoanalysis. More of a Jungian myself , thrifted !

Ever since the #NYRBbookclub read Malcom‘s In the Freud Archives , I seem to be finding Malcolm‘s or they keep finding me. Goodwill!