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Joe
Bumbalo
tape
steps
pleasure
(Jane called last night. This morning I took the lawn mower out to the shop a couple of miles outside town on Wellsburg Road. When I returned home I visited our next-door neighbors, the Bumbalos, briefly. They were getting Joe up to go to the doctor’s office for blood work. He is very weak, and couldn’t get up himself. I believe his death is near.
[... 15 paragraphs ...]
(Long pause.) While you and Ruburt embark upon a resolved path of getting to the bottom of Ruburt’s difficulties, it is highly important that Ruburt in particular increase his experience of pleasure, and his concentration upon it, so that pleasure can counter any other emotionally distressful feelings that may emerge along the way.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
We will not abandon book dictation, but the concentration for now will be largely devoted to bettering Ruburt’s condition by releasing his own energies, health, and flexibility.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
I will interrupt whenever I can be of benefit — and I will also provide sometimes short but pithy session material (with humor) that can be used sometimes as subject matter for free association. You can begin of course by free associating with any appropriate subject — his mother, his father, your relationship, your individual or joint sexual feelings, his ideas about his psychic material, his writing, or whatever — and I will also provide guidelines.
The endeavor itself will also activate his own dream mechanisms, and you will find that both of you bring new creative understandings to the task.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
(Jane called early — before 9:00 p.m., as I was getting ready to type this session. An insight concerning my questions about the role of diseases came to me after supper, before I began typing this session, and I want to note it for possible future discussion. Regarding my visit with Joe Bumbalo this morning: He has cancer. I found myself thinking about the cancer being a new, explosive growth within a body that was aging. That growth was fated to bring about not only the death of its host, but the cancer itself. So what was it doing, behaving in such a fashion? Was Joe Bumbalo giving birth to a new life form that upon death would be released to continue its growth elsewhere, just as we believe Joe will do after his death?)
