Monday thoughts and a hint of Spring....

It's becoming lighter and the days are lengthening. As the Moon wanes and the cold weather returns there is a lighter feeling around. Perhaps my cold is at last fading after the weeks of grim battle. Perhaps my mood is lighter as there are very distant hints of Spring. I walked the dogs this morning as the light was beginning to grow. It was cold still, and silent. Yet I found my mood lifting despite my normal dislike of Monday's ceaseless mornings.

Over the last few days as we have battled with our colds we surprisingly found watching "The Crown" on Netflix. I am a Republican, a Welsh Socialist Republican I loath the institution of monarchy and I cringed at many points particularly at the representation if the Saxe Cobergs attitude to Aberfan and to the sheer ignorance of Charles Windsor of Welsh history, culture and experience. Yet the script writers of the series touched me as a Psychotherapist, Philosopher and human being. The sheer horror of Gordonstoun Public School touched my own experiences and I saw many traits within myself that are the effects psychologically of private education. The reality is that were the experiences and family background of the narrow upper classes were performed in social housing and sink estates then social services would be involved. It's just a different accent and another discourse that separates the problem families from the aristocracy and the Royal Family. Psychotherapy is a profoundly powerful political tool it helps us see where we are and how we are controlled. To know yourself is a process of liberation and the blindness stretches across all classes and to all groups. Power and capitalism effects the psyche and bleeds into the unconsciousness. Whoever we are, where ever we are it creeps into our minds and sense if self. It blocks; distorts and dampens our emotions and creates a profound sense of a fear of freedom. The human condition is obscured by class and power. Whoever we are caught between Hobbes and Rosseau we struggle to know ourselves. The ignorance of rulership and the fear of the other though different and from different sources works in the same way . Yet this morning I sense a shift in mood and a development of expectation.