Sunday, May 25, 2008

On Transference, Creativity, Destruction, Deconstruction, Love, and Hate...

I seek not the money although the money would obviously be nice. I do seek the social recognition -- although that's just an 'ego' thing; I am not really a very social person. When you spend a lifetime trying to be good at something, obviously it is nice to hear people complement you for your hard work. But nothing is written in stone. People will decide what they decide...

In order to be good at something, you need to believe that you are good. There is an element of 'narcisissistic egotism' in anyone who is pretty good at whatever his or her 'life specialty' is. Mind you, oftentimes, there is narcissistic egotism even amongst those who are not very good at whatever their life specialty is.

Thus, a certain element of narcissitic egotism is a pre-condition -- or a necessary factor -- for being good at whatever it is we do well, but certainly not an exclusive, determining factor. Or in other words, obviously we have to have talent -- and oftentimes one might say a 'genetic pre-disposition' -- for what we do well, as well. Social factors and genetic factors blending together into one 'creative whole'. And of the social factors, probably 'the transference factor' is the number one factor of importance. For it is the transference factor that usually creates the 'obsessional-compulsive' element in whatever it is that we persist at endlessly for hundreds and thousands of hours over the course of our lifetime in the most superhuman of efforts to reach and achieve our transference-lifestyle goal'. Sometimes we succeed. Sometimes we fail. But we usually die trying... And this is putting aside the often 'aggressive-destructive' and/or 'deconstructionist' elements of transference. There is a paradox between transference and the strongest of creative, destructive, and/or deconstructive drives in the personality. Usually all six of these elements -- transference, creativity, destruction, deconstruction, love, and hate -- are all neatly tied up with a bow in the same 'Christmas present'. We move on in our work to learn more about 'transference'.

-- dgb, May 25th, 2008

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