Group-Analytic Contexts, Issue 81, September 2018

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doesn’t swim in the sea, nor does he approach it, he turns his back on
it. The waves are beasts, the Cyclopes and the Laistrygones, they will
devour him.
Plutarch: Don’t look at me, you’re stealing my mind, my eyes hurt,
don’t pull them out from me...
Refugee: All your food has got poison in it.
REPORTER: [HE IS AFRAID THAT THE ENEMIES - WE-WILL
POISON HIM, THAT IS WHY HE REMAINS UNFED]
NARRATOR: Plutarch at Lyceum - tells his sister that his mind
doesn’t obey him.
Plutarch: There are times I'm afraid. What’s happening with my mind?
It doesn’t listen to what I say. I know it. I can do whatever I want, I’m
a magician, I’m God, and Castaneda's method is nothing compared to
me, I have overcome it, I am the ruler of the world!
Refugee: I'll go to the bridge, and from there I'll fly like an eagle.
REPORTER: [HE IS SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING
COMMITTING SUICIDE TO ESCAPE FROM HIS TORMENT]
NARRATOR: Plutarch first-year at the Polytechnic school - he
breaks the kitchen door of the house and beats his father and his
mother with fists and kicks. His parents are asking for a prosecution
order for forced hospitalization.
Plutarch: don’t you touch my room; it's the sacred room, where I keep
my energy.
Refugee: don’t you take my sacred book; I keep my soul in there.
REPORTER: [HE IS AFRAID THAT THEY WILL STEAL HIS
RELIGIOUS BOOK, WHICH CONSTITUTES HIS SOUL, HIS
BEING]
NARRATOR: Plutarch is hospitalized in a state of physical and
mental suppression at a psychiatric clinic. He comes out with the
diagnosis of "schizotypal personality disorder" under medication and
undergoes a day hospital program for one year. He constantly talks