Richa, your essay, as often your writings do, make one relook at taken- for- granted ideas. I am wondering if we can take going between two homes as representing two aspects of one's psyche. What those two aspects maybe is open to personal exploration. Jung had two homes. One where he saw his patients, lived with his family, grew renounced and rich. The other was a home which he build himself with stone. It was isolated from civilization where he seldom saw anyone and lived in a very primitive, basic way. Both homes were representing two aspects of his psyche, which had been given form by the nature of the physical home.
So if you look at it this way then you are not leaving behind a home, but entering a home that represents an aspect of yourself, a psychic need.
I am most fascinated by the stark contrast between Jung’s two homes, and I can see how they must have served very distinct psychic needs for him. What you have suggested in most useful and reassuring; I would never have considered looking at my “situation” in such a profoundly simple way. Thank you! 😊
This comment will have to serve as a placeholder for all the wonderful things I wanted to say after reading this essay. I must say, though that for me, Home, which used to be Bangalore is now a thing that lives in my head. I call it Belhi, or Dengalore as the mood dictates. Alas, to complicate matters further, I am in neither place, Delhi or Bangalore.
Thank you for reading, and for all the wonderful things that this essay made you want to say. :)
I haven’t forgotten about our (long overdue) comversation about the in-between space that we occupy, in having transitioned from Delhi to Bangalore and vice-versa.
I also wonder what the “third” place feels like to you, and if it helps you look at Belhi-Dengalore differently!
conversation with a city, wah
Thank you for reading :)
Richa, your essay, as often your writings do, make one relook at taken- for- granted ideas. I am wondering if we can take going between two homes as representing two aspects of one's psyche. What those two aspects maybe is open to personal exploration. Jung had two homes. One where he saw his patients, lived with his family, grew renounced and rich. The other was a home which he build himself with stone. It was isolated from civilization where he seldom saw anyone and lived in a very primitive, basic way. Both homes were representing two aspects of his psyche, which had been given form by the nature of the physical home.
So if you look at it this way then you are not leaving behind a home, but entering a home that represents an aspect of yourself, a psychic need.
I am most fascinated by the stark contrast between Jung’s two homes, and I can see how they must have served very distinct psychic needs for him. What you have suggested in most useful and reassuring; I would never have considered looking at my “situation” in such a profoundly simple way. Thank you! 😊
This comment will have to serve as a placeholder for all the wonderful things I wanted to say after reading this essay. I must say, though that for me, Home, which used to be Bangalore is now a thing that lives in my head. I call it Belhi, or Dengalore as the mood dictates. Alas, to complicate matters further, I am in neither place, Delhi or Bangalore.
Thank you for reading, and for all the wonderful things that this essay made you want to say. :)
I haven’t forgotten about our (long overdue) comversation about the in-between space that we occupy, in having transitioned from Delhi to Bangalore and vice-versa.
I also wonder what the “third” place feels like to you, and if it helps you look at Belhi-Dengalore differently!