Invoking the Actual

• Projective Identification by Philip Brownell, 11/15/96
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    • To respond is to identify? by Stuart Stawman, 1/22/97
      
      

In following this thread I have experienced a niggly itch of "where are the real people here in these theorectical constructs?"... by introjecting projected coercions in an intersubjective reality, I begin to wonder is it all done by mirrors?

Such theorising leads me to seek proof... how do I know any of this is true. To seek the title of this article - the Actual (borrowed from Wilson Van Dusen).

In a queer way I sense I have found peronal answers to some of the questions in this thread when I recently read "A Grief Observed" by C.S. Lewis. He writes of his experiences after the death of his wife...

"All reality is iconoclastic. The earthly beloved, even in this life, incessantly triumphs over your mere idea of her. And you want her to; you want her with all her resistances, all her faults, all her unexpectedness. That is, in her foursquare and independent reality. And this, not any image or memory, is what we are to love still, after she is dead.......

For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive - who are here with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture - almost the precis - we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact. In real life - that's one way it differs from novels - his words and acts are, if we observe closely, hardly ever quite "in character", that is, in what we call his character. There's always a card in his hand we didn't know about."

C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed, Faber and Faber, London, 1961, pages 56-57.

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