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be speaking with as much sympathy for religion as I have I think he would see it from
a psychological perspective
AR: Well I think David that’s all the questions I’ve got and as you say you feel as
though you have been floundering around it hasn’t felt like that to me
DB: Good
AR: I think that what you have been doing is wrestling with the complexity of these
huge issues where it is sometimes hard to find an exact language or an exact form
doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop from trying
DB: Well you are obviously engaged in the same process
AR: I am trying, trying to be and interestingly I do have a number of clients who have
faith backgrounds
DB: yes (soft)
AR: and it does raise questions about what is the nature of what is my engagement
with them or do they come with an explicit agenda? Some of them find out I have a
faith background and make all sorts of assumptions the fascinating thing is
assumptions they make about my beliefs which is actually their fantasy
DB: yes
AR: and interestingly I would probably work with it in the same way
DB: Yes
AR: I don’t actually talk particularly about beliefs I help them understand that I know
the language they are talking about and have some sense of their particular world but
what’s happening in this world here. So what, the other thing which strikes me is the
dependence on one’s belief in the unconscious and how you think the unconscious is,
in terms of if you have a particular set of beliefs, values, religion, spirituality? Is that
always in the room in relationship with the client and accessible to the client at an
unconscious level, that it is not quite Jung’s collective unconscious. I’m not quite so
sure about that but something about a correspondence at an almost unspoken level
(pause), which of course you don’t know about unless you speak about it or it emerges
A dominant psychoanalytic interpretative frameworkin the work
DB: Yes how can one know the answer to that I mean it must be true that everybody
brings a rich presence with them don’t they which is quite different according to who
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