MIND - LAZINESS - children, in
This answering that wasn’t like the typical Phosphorus, hanging over you, telling you everything you want to hear. And I saw when I wanted to give him a hand, this little
hesitating. Aversion to be touched, as you said it very clearly, certainly was present there. But of course SuSanna made it a little bit more interesting, the aversion to be lightly touched, this is very peculiar. A push, that is okay, actually he likes it. Now, you can write that down, but you must also ask what it means.
You can write down : aversion to be touched, but it is very specific because it is to slight touch and not to a hard touch. Not necessarily we are going to find this rubric back in the Repertory. I know in the Boeninghausen, we do have slight touch aggravates, and hard touch improve.
MIND - TOUCHED - aversion to be
I don’t know if that is in Synthesis. But what does it mean, is much more important. And by the way, in the context of the whole case. If you would give me that rubric just by itself, it would still say something. But in view of the whole case it becomes very important. And you must understand what you see in this child, knowing what I have asked SuSanna, I must see it in her. And I did. The intra-uterine story absolutely beautiful corresponds to him. Now, I will ask you first: what does it mean? Slightly touch aggravates and hard touch improves. He likes hard touch, but don’t hug him, don’t kiss him.
Audience: ….
Luc: You make the connection very well.
Remember I did ask the question: SuSanna, during pregnancy how did you react when the husband wanted to hug you. And she said: Oh, no, I didn’t want to. Remember, connection is made. Now that you know the connection what does it mean for the boy? You have to understand his language otherwise, you will not get anywhere.
Okay, slight touch, caressing, hugging, stands for what symbolically? For love. Emotional nourishment for the unconscious. Eros, we call it, love, female. Yin in TCM (traditional Chinese medicine). We call it relative fixed symbols. Because any of the explanations that I give to you, can be related to that. It is all about emotional nourishment. Aversion,
SuSanna had it too.
On the other hand, hard touch. This is the right side, the sword side. No wonder he likes the swords. It is symbolical for him. All these relative fixed symbols are all explained by Carl Jung. That is why psychology is so important for us. I understood this immediately. Now I can see he likes swords to, he likes action. Right side, male, dominant, hard touch, reason, conscious, stands for Yang in TCM, stands for action.
That is what he wants, he doesn’t get into action until she wakes him in the morning, she gives him a firm push, bang. He likes that.
He likes also fighting and swords and knights. He doesn’t look at Bambi or Walt Disney. It has to fit together, all of it. And it is also the connection what you see with SuSanna. That is why I asked it. I did the work for you. I could have kept it for myself, but I wanted to know it, because I already saw the many connections, mom did the same thing.
Don’t forget it, what the mom feels, she carries over to the unborn foetus, without any doubt.
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Do you understand what it means when I say something like this? When you understand this, you understand the case and you will not go wrong.
When I look at the whole case, it is so beautiful, that split, this contradictory behaviour, this fits the whole case. Right away comes to my mind certain rubrics, not necessarily
remedies.
That is one thing we just heard from him. I didn’t get too much from him anyway, just wanted to see what he had to say. There wasn’t that much. It wasn’t like he was too enthusiastic. And believe me I connect with children very well.
The way I looked at it, it is like he is in his world. I am sitting here, he is sitting there. It is not like remedies who have…. ,
(I thought about this, there is a remedy that has an abyss behind him, Delusion, abyss behind him. There is also a remedy that has an abyss (abyss stands for big hole) in front of him.
These things go through my mind all the time. I write those things down. I call it a
racehorse. All the remedies (horses) are racing..…, and by each question I ask, one horse is a little ahead. At the end I will tell you the winning horse. How can you give me the outcome when we didn’t even start the race? That is why I don’t want to hear remedies.) A safe place, I was asking SuSanna what is really is going on. One thing I knew definitely, he was there, and I was here, disconnection.
I have to tell you one thing that Jung would have called this a case of schizophrenia. Now we leave that, I don’t care about the name. But let put it this way, Jung was a lot closer than we are now. In other words, Jung always said, which is right, the bad cases of schizophrenia, give schizophrenia a bad name. That is what Jung said, and this is really true. He would call this a schizophrenic case. And all those A.D.D. kids, Jung would have called schizophrenia. He is actually much more correct.
You know the ultimate case of schizophrenia, there is a total disconnection between the conscious and the unconscious.
Here this boy goes in between. Now he has learned to connect more in a safe way. But he is not really coming out. Timidity appearing in public, I write that down.
MIND - TIMIDITY - public; about appearing in
I want you to know one thing: I never have one remedy in my mind. I tell my students you cannot think in remedies. You have to explain everything, what I have just explained to you. Because otherwise you are going to skew remedies.
So, on purpose I don’t do it either. I write down whatever I see: timidity appearing in public, bashful, is also OK.
MIND - TIMIDITY - bashful
(18.51)
You have to talk in the language of the repertory. The step from the patient to the repertory, I can see that people struggle with that, worldwide. It has to come like this. If you do a case
like this, you cannot write down what the patient says but you should write the rubrics down as he is talking. That is how fast you should be.
As we go further, we just will follow the interview.
What SuSanna said is timidity appearing in public and of course answers shortly even aversion to answer. I wrote those things down, these were rubrics for me.
And then of course she talks to me about a safe place. And guess what, the home is the first safe place, but any new place, like school, it takes him about 2 or 3 months. And that becomes his other safe place then.
Does this correspond to Susanna’s story, Intra-Uteral?
Absolutely. Her home was not really a safe place, but what was her safe place? Her mothers place. It does correspond. All these feelings he has, SuSanna had. See how beautiful this is?
That is what I want to hear from you when I say: explain me the case. I don’t want to hear Stramonium, Tarentula. You just can be lucky, it doesn’t mean a thing to me, I am not impressed, I want you to explain it to me.
So Jorick has the need to feel safe. You could probably say, it is a dangerous world, the delusion all alone in the world…, there is a delusion like that. I love the delusions, but we come to the end with that. Does he have this fixed idea all alone in the wilderness? That is why some of you talked about Stramonium.
All alone in the world? I don’t think that one neither. That is Pulsatilla. That does not represent the whole case, because SuSanna, what did she say, actually: she did what I had to do, in spite of somebody abusing her, and she went to her mother. So, forget these delusions.
But then she said, he was restless. That was not to be seen here, obviously he wasn’t too restless, he wasn’t dancing etc. Talking about the restlessness, what did I asked about? I asked certain things.
You could say to me: you asked guided questions when you ask these kinds of things. But I don’t, because I know that those thoughts she won’t tell. And I have already something in my mind; I might have five horses racing ahead. I want to eliminate a couple of them. With one question, I can. So, it is not like a yes or no-question, I want explanation.
Remember what I asked about the restlessness? I asked a specific thing and this thing made 2 horses going ahead. If you see me writing anything down, you should write down too.
About the restlessness I asked one question that was not volunteered. That is why I was asking it from SuSanna.
(23.45)
There was one specific question what I wanted to know and SuSanna said: oh, yes, now that you say it.
The question was if he was restless when he was eating. And was did SuSanna say to that? Yes, I had to catch him, he ran away, he was eating while standing etcetera.
Does this say anything to you? Besides it would be sycosis, at least I am sure about it. But you know, right away comes to my mind one racing horse that goes ahead? What did I ask after that? It has to be in your head now.
I did ask: does he eat a lot?
And why did I ask it, because there was one horse running ahead. And she said: yes, voracious.
What was the next question I asked? About his weight. And SuSanna said, for 3 or 4 years he was thin, in spite of voracious eating. Only when did he get fat, as SuSanna says it. When did he get more obese? When did this picture disappear, of himself as a nervous racing horse?
Did you see what I did, I made a timeline. I want to know, what changed when. Because you see clearly the person going from psora to sycosis to syphilis. Did he go to puberty already? He did. You see the full picture now.
But what did I ask? When did that disappear, when did he became obese, what happened? (26.56)
Yes, he got depressed, that is what happened.
He went from sycosis to syphilis and became obese. Well, the obesity can be sycosis overbuild of course. But the picture with it, why he changed. Now he cannot get rid of it. That was very important for me and did it confirm my remedy? Indirectly, yes. But I am only going to say that in the end to you. Because otherwise I give it away. Immediately one horse was ahead, but I am not making any conclusions, because I am only this far. I am just saying it is ahead and there are 10.000’s horses behind it.
Remember SuSanna told me, he had this very intend look, focused, almost scaring for a mom. It is interesting because remember how restless he became after that, and then depressed. Focused, almost too much, just focus on one thing. That was psora. Psora going to sycosis at this point.
The late speaking… but when he started speaking, he was late obviously, he speaks with sentences. The Calcarea carbonica person does this all the time, usually around 14/15 months. The mothers of the Calcarea carbonica children get very anxious: ah, he hasn’t said a word yet. And then, suddenly he cannot shut up anymore.
There is something about the speech that I want to ask you. There is again something that you should have noticed. Mom said something about his speech. What do I see with him? And I asked questions about it, because I was interested. I wanted confirmation. You heard me asking about these questions. What did I ask? What is so special about this? It
confirms the whole context of the case. It is like WHOW… I get exited.
Audience question: That he was not speaking, and then suddenly started speaking a lot? Luc: No, I was not impressed by that. Well…., to some extent is fits a little bit….
Is he a Baryta carbonica? To differentiate Baryta carbonica,…
What is the delusion of the Baryta carbonica person, what is his fixed idea, his Core Delusion, his primary delusion: he walks on his knees and his legs are cut off.
Which reflect the dependency in one hand and also the lack of self-confidence. Basically the smallness of the person on all planes, physically, emotionally, mentally or on one plane or a combination. Does Baryta carbonica come to mind in this case?
Well, first of all, Jorick is tall, second. SuSanna said he is very intelligent. There goes Baryta carbonica out of the door, right!
He is shy, yes, but why. How many shy remedies do we have? Bashful? About 50 remedies at least. Each remedy for a different reason.
That is what I do with my students,… I say, okay there are 10 remedies in one rubric, now tell me the difference. That is what you should know. Each for a different reason. This boy’s timidity does reflect something else.
But the speech what about it? That is very interesting. Because no common symptoms of ASD, I am not interested in. But SuSanna did a beautiful job and I think I did it rather okay, asking the right questions. Pat myself on the shoulder, its not a Palladium thing, I am not longing for approval... I am confident enough
Audience:….. the echolalia, the imitating?
Luc: no, I am not impressed with that. I mean that is his part of ASD. SuSanna said it herself. And it wasn’t far into the conversation, we are not far yet, that is why it takes a long time for me to explain, I just want to know for you how you see, I want you to learn
something from it. What did I see? Audience: ………
Luc: Let me ask you: how did Jorick talk to me? Short, yes. And what did mom say? Loquacity!
Talking about a difference !!: zero to me, loquacity where he feels safe.
Loquacity at home and at school, the other safe place. We have a remedy that can be loquacious and silent! It is simple; you don’t have to look too far.
But that one horse was coming forward. I write it down, in rubrics. Isn’t this peculiar!! That is peculiar.