The Neurot and Erotic Function

Speaker 1
I mean we can direct our attention in effective ways of course
Speaker 2
Wrapping up here with a quote a paraphrase from your book that I quite liked about That particular point The idea was that neurosis or struggle is an incredibly Complex and effective way to pretend to ourselves that we're dealing with our life and working on our problems while guaranteeing that nothing will happen Yeah It's like it's like falling through the air creating problems to that Promise themselves to you that they'll help you stop falling through the air
Speaker 1
Yeah, they basically serve as a distraction like I forget if I said it but it's like you're falling through space You don't know when and where that might end or something But you have a little backpack and you pull out a little pup tent or something and Put it together as you're falling through space and then climb inside the pup tent now you feel oh now I'm safe Because I've removed myself from that awareness like you were talking about earlier about that groundless ground being lost that awareness, but But uh, so now I'm in my little Pup tent or Trump over which I used to talk about cocoon and the point of the Neurot and erotic Function is to make sure that My distraction continues But I don't like the unnecessary suffering that is inevitably one component of neurotic avoidance and so I pretend that I'm trying to Uh resolve my neurosis while simultaneously and part of me is but simultaneously, I'm Uh going to make sure it never gets resolved because that would lose its destructive function and
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