Brave Little Gerda Faces the Cutting Winds

[Gerda]

Also here is an interesting thing for all of us --

One of my friends at a cafe i go to for doing my on=line work is this serious intellectual wacko Jungian shrink. I tell him periodically about H. We had the most interesting conversation yesterday about how H is displaying Lacan’s theory of the psychotic’s regression into the feminine. He said that it sounds like H's creation of a new reality is the only way he can actually survive without completely losing his mind or committing suicide, and that the regression into the feminine is manifested in all those things he is saying all the time about my emasculating him, about how I don’t know how to be a woman to a husband, how I am a feudal lord, etc. In other words, this alternate reality he has constructed about me and about what is going on is his attempt to heal his psychosis and not actually die from the terror and horror he is living in.

It was really interesting and kind of comforting to see this in such a clear diagnostic way even though my underlying belief is that God does impossible things so it almost doesn't matter.

It also gives me something specific to pray for on his behalf and helps me forgive me.

Don't worry, I mean forgive from afar.