He describes practising identification with objects until he could feel what it would be like to be a piece of wood, a flower, an animal, or a glass of water.
Date (happened)
before 1959
unresolved
- before 1959
- before 13 November 1959
Persons
Told / reported
- 13 November 1959
- 13 November 1959
Sources
Source
- Esau and Jacob ¶13 (I would take a piece of wood, or a flower, or an animal and try to feel myself as it, and I finally could feel what it would be like to be a glass of water.)
Attested in 1 lecture
| Date | Lecture or book | Telling | Passage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959-11-13 [exact/certain/final] | Esau and Jacob | Luckily for me when this began to appear when I was seven, there were no psychoanalysts in the little island of Barbados, and if there had been, my father could not have afforded them. They would not have known what was happening to me. Luckily for the work I was to do, I was born there on this little island that had no importance in the world - and no psychoanalysts! So no one could disturb what my Father was doing to bring about this separation. It went on for five years, from seven to twelve, and then I was torn apart, but I did not lift that being out until I was twenty-one and saw it… | 529329 |