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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 08:48:23 -0400
From: Leah Ruekberg
Subject: The Girl Without Hands


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A number of people requested my notes from Kalsched's lecture on Trauma =
and the Soul - especially on The Girl Without Hands. If you write, I =
will send them just to the interested parties.

I have been thinking a lot about how this pertains to personal =
narrative. Kalsched says that to create personal narrative is to call =
your soul back and reunite mind, body and spirit. =20

Davis uses the metaphor of giving birth to our stories. He says, "Every =
child is beautiful when it is first born. It just needs to be cleaned =
up and fed." Kalsched says that the spirit world protects the personal =
spirit who has found no place in "this world." It cannot be born into a =
trauma-ridden world except as a "monster." If the "broken and struggling =
ego" can hold it with loving compassion it can incarnate.

When we first begiin trying to tell personal stories the ones that get =
snagged are often the monsters.

Leah

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