I want to write something about this picture… Is that an original snob, believe me? Anyway, I’ve been saving on it for a long time, it means something to me that I’m not sure is the same as for the author, but I think so, in the same direction…

I think of the term “inflation”, it’s not exactly a psychological word, but I’ve seen it a couple of times when you talk about spiritual ideals and ambition. Even with Freud, I think firmly?, when he writes about “almost love”. That is, this perfect sympathy that one should have for everything o everyone. But above all, I think of what I think is, like, the only psychoanalytic examination of specifically the new-age/newage philosophy of life: “New Age Thinking” (1996), by M.D. Faber. This is how he writes, among other things… (Look, look…) …

“From the psychoanalytic angle, three items stand out clearly; first, we have an overarching presence of infantile omnipotence, the egocentric, unconscious belief in one’s unlimited powers […]; second, we have the urge to fuse regressively with the environment, to attach oneself to the surrounding world (universe) in a way that denies, erases, cancels out the ever-present sense of separation which the cronologically mature individual must cope with during the course of his days on the planet; third, we have a longing for narcissistic inflation, the longing to go about in the belief that one is somehow magical, wonderful […] as opposed to being simply another regular person in the world.”

The tricky thing about such psychological “inflation”, if there is no coverage for the so-called, whether it is the ideal to be able to have a high un pure love and acceptance of everything you meet, or your own imminent perfection, is that there is gladly to be some “junk” that needs to be deposited somewhere. According to the simple psychologically therapeutic rule that when something is too much in one direction, excessively, where has the other gone?