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In a new crisis situation, in facing a present crisis squarely and dealing with it in adult terms, he may indeed free himself largely; for the present situation through association brings up highly charged emotional energies that have been stopped up and causing difficulty.
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He can run without being compelled to run away. (Slowly.) He has a free choice, now. In facing these problems, he is releasing himself through highly traumatic inner psychological dramas. He is not using the situation in a derogatory sense. He is able however, now, to face realities, allow himself motion, and not fear that motion will automatically mean cowardly flight.
In facing the situation in your parent’s house, he faces and conquers the situation once existing in his mother’s house. There is some resistance, but he now recognizes it as such, and is able to overcome it. The situation does not gobble him up. He was always afraid that it would.
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Now, if you will forgive me, he sees your mother’s stupidity in important matters. If she is destructive, he sees that this destruction is the other face of love never truly given. It is not aimed, it is a rage, enveloping like a storm of nature, enveloping even the personality from whom it emits, so that the mother becomes a victim also.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
They, your parents, are done with each other, your mother being more honest than your father in this respect. (Long pause.) Her rage, you must understand, is the other face of life, vitality and love, and she will not give up her demands. She will try to shove him out, and he will cower before her strength. He always resented her vitality.
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
She feels cheated, and has, for he has gone. In a last life she died fairly early, and she would not face life, she did not want to hold on. This time her vitality, chosen by her, forces her to do so. She wants the man she once knew but her rage forces her, and has forced her, to stay alive, with the one part of the man that remained.
[... 26 paragraphs ...]
Once more: Ruburt begins to realize he can have full freedom of motion, without feeling that he will be forced to run away. He has a choice of motion now. He can stay and face a situation through, and have full freedom of motion. He will not use motion in a cowardly manner, as he feared. He can also use freedom of motion to help.
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