Another day of reading, study, writing – broken up by lunch with a pleasant guy who is recently diagnosed HIV+, who wanted to talk about what he is going through, plus our normal HIV patient presentation to the medical students.
Much study and writing is relatively continuous, work-like... but sometimes it is like a light breaking: much of what I was reading this morning was like that – a lot of 'aha!' experiences and a sense of 'I really have to remember this.' Mostly over a discussion of fairy tales, oddly enough – and some trying to figure out the problems with psychoanalysis and (or perhaps, I'm not certain, versus) Buddhism...
Where were the 'aha!'s? Ah, too long and chaotic. One moment that should have been obvious (I have learned this over and over) was re-viewing the aspects of personality types for me – I've always been comfortable with personality type theory, but for some reason I recurrently forget that, as I'm an introvert, certain functions are reversed from expectations (i.e. although thinking is what I use for judgment, and I'm judgment-oriented, that is all measured as external behavior – and I'm an introvert, therefore thinking and judgment actually come second to intuition and perception, though still above feeling and sensation – and sensation is the function most embedded in the unconscious – yes, it's annoyingly confusing if you lose track of the directions here).
And then a startling paragraph in CW 6, §807 – I'll leave it for anybody to look up if they're interested, and involved in the field.
Back to the books, preparing a Skype conversation with Saõ Paulo in half an hour....
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