Reflections
About Psychic Maturity

"Actually, it's more important [to honestly] ask yourself questions rather than seek answers [breaking into pieces]. Because asking yourself questions means opening up other perspectives, and looking at reality from different angles... A mentally mature person is someone who can have several points of view on reality." From Giuseppe Civitarese's lecture "Use Your Colors! Dreaming as the Poetic Function of the Psyche," which he delivered in 2012.

Indeed, how often do we fervently defend our opinion as the only correct one? How often are we convinced of the absolute truth of our values? How religiously do we adhere to certain ideas (such as religious ones), unwaveringly following them every day? How strong is our intolerance toward unbelievers and those with different views? It's worth pausing for a moment and asking ourselves: why is that?

And here is another interesting question: is what we call reality something that already exists, or is it something we create with our psyche? (A question posed by Paul Sandler in his reflections on Bion).

Let us think together!

29th of September 2023

Author: Olesya Geiger
Photographer: Polina Kalashnikova