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Breaking the Circle
Author(s) -
Bridge Marie
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1993.tb00624.x
Subject(s) - psychology , illusion , denial , perception , focus (optics) , mythology , social psychology , psychoanalysis , work (physics) , cognitive psychology , literature , optics , art , mechanical engineering , physics , neuroscience , engineering
SUMMARY. In this paper I explore some thoughts about the relationship between language, an awareness of separateness and the perception of linear time. I focus on work with a patient whose imagery resembled the myths of Paradise and the Fall. I look at how it is only when the circle of idealised omnipotent illusion is broken that language comes to be used as a communication across a gap rather than as the denial of a gap.