Posted by cricket on January 23, 2006, at 9:17:03
In reply to Re: Hey Cricket - Wittgenstein » cricket, posted by alexandra_k on January 17, 2006, at 18:27:54
Hi Alex,
I'm okay. Just so crazy busy at work that I couldn't even go to the bathroom.
Then I got sick. A bit better, but still lightheaded and tired.
Anyway, back to the "spontaneous sympathy"
I was trying to tell my therapist about how so many parts of me see him as an authority figure and how hard that makes it for me to be open, trusting, etc.
I had this image that I told him about - I was in a welfare office (public assistance but I called it welfare which is telling)shoving my forms under the bullet proof glass for approval. He was the worker behind the bullet proof glass and he had this big REJECT stamp which he stamped in red all over my papers. So I kept on giving him smaller and smaller bits of paper hoping that they would just be too tiny for the REJECT stamp.
He thought it was a perfect description of the way I act in therapy. Tiny bits of information most of which is completely inscrutable.
That led to the discussion of what it will take for me to feel comfortable enough to talk in therapy. That's where "spontaneous sympathy" comes in.
He talked about his three year old son who has recently begun to talk a lot. Most of it, he says, is silly nonsense but he loves to hear it so more and more comes out - spontaneous sympathy.
Then he says "unless I really screw this up, you will get to that point too."
So maybe it is the language stuff from Wittgenstein that made him think of that.
I hope you're doing okay, Alex. I haven't been reading on Babble.
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