Posted by Llurpsie_Noodle on January 16, 2007, at 16:21:00
In reply to Re: let me add - » one woman cine, posted by gardenergirl on January 16, 2007, at 13:16:51
Sometimes reading something that resonates helps us understand ourselves.
Sometimes it also helps to read something about people like us, even though it makes us feel like we are "different" then they are. Helps us understand ourselves.
If Deneb wishes to understand her mom's behavior at a different level, it might be interesting to her to thing about cultural influences and generational influences on her mom's behavior. Kind of like an anthropology project.
Reading a book about a group of people who are different from me often has the effect of helping me understand that people from [group X] are in fact individuals, rather than category-members. That has certainly been my experience as a reader of psycho-babble posts.
-Ll
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