Classroom Talk
Winter 2002 Archive
Re: Sometimes we have a game. Sometimes the game's "got us." Posted by Douglas on March 20, 2002 at 21:32:59:
In Reply to: Sometimes we have a game. Sometimes the game's "got us." posted by John on March 20, 2002 at 13:22:25:
Hello Coach, Classmates, and a welcome to Student John:
Coach in the above post: “Sometimes we have a game. Sometimes the game’s got us.”, you remark:
“Even though the awareness game is designed primarily for interpersonal relating between people, you are right if you've surmised
that you can use the techniques of this game with the reactions we have to inanimate objects or impersonal programs that impact in
our living space.”
Having been educated in a disparate school of Psychoanalysis — the Object Relations School of Psychoanalysis at the Tavistock in
London — where the focus was on the intrapersonal rather than the interpersonal, my observations on this subject are from a
perspective that may be at odds from the teaching herein.
To complicate matters even further, I am afraid that what I have to say would be couched in a didactic style augmented by yet
another poem.
Given the reaction to the last time I took that approach, it seems only prudent to ask permission to proceed.
Ever so leery,
Douglas
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