1 result for (book:tps1 AND session:597 AND stemmed:felt)
4/82 (5%)
Mattie
tone
Midge
Del
Sumari
[... 30 paragraphs ...]
The feeling-tone of Ruburt’s mentioned earlier in your terms, the negative one, was triggered as you know by his reaction to your illness, which was followed by rising difficulties on the part of your own parents. He felt trapped by them, having to help them, as he felt trapped by his own mother.
He felt then that the tables had been turned on him again, after a time of freedom. Learning to handle these problems took him time, and again the problems themselves helped generate enough activity within his psychic centers to open up new channels.
When he felt trapped he adopted those symptoms, though to a much lesser degree, that his mother had when she was trapped. His childhood situation filled him with terror, yet there was the impetus of growing up to set him free. This time he found himself in adulthood with no such “escape” in quotes offered or possible in the old terms.
[... 9 paragraphs ...]
It was, however, like a second, more painful adolescence. He felt always on shifting ground, and could not get his footing—hence the rigidity.
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