Glossary

He who learns that his father was king and he will be the heir suddenly sees his life from a completely different angle. He will discover new attitudes, take a step back from his complexes, will play a different role in society. It may undertake and realize many projects that were hitherto just utopias. To […]

Very few areas are more complex than human relationships. Conscious and unconscious problems of one partner, to which add and join the other’s issues. When a situation stretches, deteriorates, get adversary, it is often difficult to find appropriate solutions for the two protagonists and restore a real harmony. The psychological approach is often superficial, limited […]

The representation we have of ourselves is largely influenced by culture, and ignores the transcendent dimension, the largest part of the psyche and of reality in general. We do not know much about ourselves, because the forces that inhabit us lurk for the largest share in our unconscious. We do not know better our true […]

A fulfilling sexuality is undoubtedly one of the most important factors of balance, happiness and creativity. Psychologists of all schools agree on this point. The question is what could be a “fulfilling sexuality”. Can a homosexual be deeply satisfied? Can marital relations with their repetitivity, blossom as prescribed by nature, to ensure the offspring’s rising […]

To define spirituality is not easy, this for an obvious reason: it belongs to the transcendent dimension of the psyche and the cosmos in general, while our reasoning and our definitions belong to intellect and rationality. Transcendence belongs to symbolic, openness, availability, of eternity, whereas rationality has to base on material cause and effect, logic, […]

From where does this need to believe that makes people victims of all kinds of charlatans, sellers of amulets and other purveyors of irrational beliefs come ? The need to take refuge in magic to find the naive aspirations of infancy? To avoid a too stingy reality of satisfactions and human contact? Animist tendencies remained […]

It may seem strange to consider a series of paranormal phenomena as a valid empirical basis for any theory whatsoever. Yet the discovery of the fundamental relationship between Eros and development of psychic abilities brings a double factual basis for the psychoanalytic edifice, with all the consequences this can have on the entire theory. The […]

The basic mechanisms of our intellectual and emotional functioning are part of space-time. Faced with any new perception, we first react emotionally, and that emotion (sometimes tenuous) drives us to seek the causes of phenomena. Causes are within the time in that they precede their effects by definition: this phenomenon took place because such prior […]

No theory built on a wrong basis can be relevant. It remains questionable, may lead to aberrant results and can’t be applied without major risks of error. This is exactly what happened to classical psychoanalysis: the original axiom, postulating that the purpose of the non-procreative sexual instinct is mere pleasure, is a contradiction regards to […]