that chalky outline on the ground is a father figure

That chalky outline on the concrete is an abstarct father figure. The police are handing out blanket statements to the people on the scene. The rain starts to drizzle; here and there, umbrella terms are popping up.

Donald Winnicott. Playing and Reality
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«Psychotherapy is done in the overlap of the two play areas, that of the patient and that of the therapist. If the therapist cannot play, then he is not suitable for the work. If the patient cannot play, then something needs to be done to enable the patient to become able to play, after which psychotherapy may begin.»

В этой цитате Винникотта упаковано (и может быть из нее развернуто) самое главное о психотерапии, о том что это вообще такое, как быть и что делать всем участникам процесса.

Чтоб не так сильно увлекаться вариантами гипотезы лингвистиеской относительности

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/08/how-universal-are-our-emotions

«An interpretation should rarely go as far as possible. It should by preference fall short even of its intended goal. This gives the patient an opportunity to extend your interpretation, gives him greater share in the proceedings and will mitigate to some extent the trauma of being the victim of your help (Tarachow, 1963:49).»

> the trauma of being the victim of your help
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“Who knows! Right? I mean, these so-called depth psychologists… Are so far out of their depth on this one that the fish have lights on their noses.”

«In confession, the sinner tells us what he knows; in analysis the neurotic has to tell more» (Freud, 1926:289)

“The sulky crescent moon which hung above a shop on Holywell Street, the centre of 19th-century London’s little known but booming Victorian pornography trade.” (src)