The author of two books on Freud and his successors, Philip Rieff, remarks, "The object of therapy, in the Jungian sense, is to reconcile the individual to whatever authority he carries within himself.
In many of the old tales, the hero is the youngest and seemingly least promising of several brothers. He appears to be a simple fool predestined to fail at everything he does.
The title of this commentary is a mouthful--but aims at pointing to a relationship between how we go about rooting for our home town teams and enjoying our national pastime in a time of increasing trauma and strife around the world. It is not easy being a Cardinal fan in San Francisco.
On September 11, 2001, America and the civilized world woke up to the horror and the tragedy of the destruction of the World Trade Center twin towers by fundamentalist Osama Bin Laden's terrorist organization.
In the last years, a large number of authors have indicated, advertised and explained the dangerous situation that humanity has created by itself. The catastrophic global crisis has been characterized in many different ways that show, all of them, a very clear idea: a split between the inner man and the "external" or "objective" reality.
