Notes from" INTO THE WILD"
" I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life." ............... Leo Tolstoy
It is true that may creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological...
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationship.
Nature was here something savage and awful, though beautiful. I looked with awe at the ground at the ground I trod on, to see what the powers had made there, the form and the fashion and the material of their work. This was that earth of which we have heard, made out of CHAOS and old nights.
" I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life." ............... Leo Tolstoy
It is true that may creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological...
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationship.
Nature was here something savage and awful, though beautiful. I looked with awe at the ground at the ground I trod on, to see what the powers had made there, the form and the fashion and the material of their work. This was that earth of which we have heard, made out of CHAOS and old nights.
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