"EROS & THANATOS" - Freud

In the last post there is an illustration named: yin-yang. It shows the two sides of everything what exists. Sometimes one thinks that a „negative” event is happening to or around him/her. But everything has a reason. One should learn the lessons from the negative view and this is how it will turn into „positive” effect  as the yin-yang symbol.

Every „ending” may hold a „new beginning”. Is that true?

Thinking on that question suddenly I thought of the „EROS & THANATOS” – and I assume most people will have the „AHA-feeling”: yes! : F R E U D !!!

http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud

We are talking about this – because we (soon) will get to our last element of the holistic system: the WATER – element.
4 elements of the 5 were already presented in former posts here and with the element Water the basics of the system will be fully performed:

TREE – FIRE – EARTH – METAL – WATER

The element water holds the – so called - CHI ENERGY what is indispensable to LIFE!

This is how we get to mention Freud and the 2 basic DRIVES living with his expression:

·         „life instinct” &

·         „death instinct”

The statement of „death instinct” is as follows: 

„the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state".

The death drive opposes “EROS” - the tendency toward survival, propagation, sex, and other creative, life-producing drives. The death drive is sometimes referred to as “THANATOS”  in post-Freudian thought, complementing "Eros", although this term was not used in Freud's own work, being rather introduced by one of Freud's followers Wilhelm Stekel. "

(quoted from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive)

We will talk over the details of element WATER with the organs of the body in the next post.

 

Later, when we will be getting familiar with the system itself, the 5 elements and the basics of  how it is all connected  to the organs of the body, - we will place the letters into the system and discuss of how our handwriting plays the role of a mirror to reflect our energies, our well-being.

Until - read something about Freud for yourself. :-)

Have a nice weekend !