The working alliance is St. Stephan's cathedral. Epistemological considerations of the Heinrich Deserno lecture, "Analysis and the working alliance" (1990)]

With the term "working alliance", as it was discussed by R.R. Greenson in noted publications, an understanding of work was introduced that corresponds with the dominant contemporary idea of work as a purely instrumental and technical process which is alien to the original "spirit" of Freudian Analysis. The author shows that psychological work, which in analysis is carried out cooperatively by analyst and analysand, needs transference to be successful, a transference with the help of which the analysand is able to discuss and specify his unconscious psychological conflicts. In Greenson's understanding the working alliance--supposedly neurosis-free--appeals to the rational part of the ego and introduces a normative understanding of reality. The transference relationship, by contrast, gives room to those psychic forces which refuse to obey the authority of the ego and its tendencies to conventionalize and suppress unconscious material.     

“……我是大卫的根，又是他的后裔。我是明亮的晨星。”

旧约圣经早有预言说:"有星要出于雅各,有杖要兴于以色列。"(民24:17)当希律王的时候,有几位东方博士看见了出于雅各的那星,于是骑着骆驼,带着礼物,千里迢迢,跋山涉水,踏上了寻找圣婴的艰难之路,终于在伯利垣城找到了人类的救主耶稣基督。耶稣基督的降生就是一颗出于雅各的新星,也是升于伯利恒城的新星,这颗星给人类带来了希望和光明,更吸引了世人,他为何有那么大的引力,究竟与人类有什么关系?     

也谈"我即神,神即是我"--拜读《无神论、宗教与道德》有感

好几年前,《中国青年报》有篇题为《向青年毛泽东学习什么》的文章。该文向公众推介了青年毛泽东不同凡俗的先进思想和行为。其中提及毛泽东曾说过“我即神,神即是我”这句话。当时读来颇为惊诧。今天拜读李申老师的文章《无神论、宗教与道德》时,又一次引发对这句话的深思。“我即神,神即是我”,丝毫没有神化自我的用心。正相反,其目的在于淡化“神”,将人们想像中至高无上的“神”普通