Julia Kristeva’s book, Hatred and Forgiveness, is an excellent exploration of the experience of forgiveness. Kristeva explores the issue from a variety of perspectives and concludes that psychoanalysis is best suited for the accomplishment of forgiveness. I would broaden this observation to include “talk therapy” in general.
Kristeva, in this book and others, develops the notion that forgiveness is more than a conceptual process. If we are trapped in the conceptual world, then we are not likely to allow the experience of forgiveness to be constellated in the depths of our heart. For, forgiveness does not begin with a concretely existing deity dwelling “out there.” It is an essential element in the depths of our psyche and can be resurrected if we are willing to “unpack our heart with words.” (Shakespeare)
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Great site and writing, Lew, I saw your comment on Val Russel’s site ( Words) but your Link wouldn’t work. It’s good that you have great SEO’s or search engine optimization, because I just googled Literary Lew, and here I am…anyway, Val commented she would love to visit your site, so you may want to try fix the link, and go back and leave her an actual link in a comment or something…Just thought you’d like to know.. Keep up the great work.
God Bless You
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Thanks again. And thanks so much for the feedback re the link. I’ll work on that. I am relatively new to this and have lots of problems with the “nuts and bolts” of wordpress.com. But I’m gonna keep on plugging. Tell Val I will try to address the link problem.
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