1 result for (book:tes7 AND session:324 AND stemmed:excit)
6/33 (18%)
resentment
excitement
misdirected
Wollheim
symptoms
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It has been dammed up and directed against the self. There is a need in him for excitement, but because of the maturity of the personality, the excitement now must in some manner be purposeful.
It seeks outlet and must find it, and must find it a manner that satisfies the creative abilities. The excitement need not be physical, though it will find some reflection in physical terms. He has enormous energy at his disposal, a large portion of which has been misdirected in the form of symptoms, and partially out of resentment.
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This energy is, of course, related strongly with his work. the relation is far more powerful than any strictly logical connection could ever be. The release of the energy in other directions automatically minimizes the symptoms, and will automatically negate them. They must, therefore, be used in exciting creative ways having to do with his intuitions, intellect, and creative work.
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The stimuli that can be used to absorb some of the misdirected energy in the day is no longer available. The self shows its true face. When the intuitions are allowed freedom you see they therapeutically aid the personality in sleep and refresh it. The more energy that is used on Ruburt’s part in exciting creative ways, the more is available, you see, for therapeutic purposes. The symptoms are denied energy and cannot survive.
Even in sleep then, energy is used constructively. The mailing out of manuscripts with which he is pleased is automatically beneficial, in that energy is being directed outward. At his best he does lose himself in work, and finds himself; but the work must be to him exciting, highly creative and challenging. Work for work’s sake will not do for him.
He must be in throes of creativity. This can apply to actual work on a manuscript, intellectual excitement, or intuitional discovery, but a humdrum creative ritual is defeating for him. His energy will then attempt to explode in other fashions, and denied this will feed on its origins and result in physical symptoms.
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