Artwork: Mother and Child -Gustav Klimt (1905)
A poem based on the psychoanalytic theory of Melanie Klein
Mother and Child Nature
In her distress,
Contained in a small body,
Still without cohesion,
The child curls up and sucks her thumb,
The little child,
Is afraid of so much.
It's an unconscious fear
Of someone who knows they have a lot to lose,
Starting with their mother's welcoming embrace,
Which over time decreases.
After the symbiotic phase,
Mother-child fusion,
the separation begins,
In a non-amniotic environment,
Individuation becomes necessary.
Also the anguish of not knowing oneself to be complete,
For those who have experienced that unconditional affection.
No guaranteed connection,
There are so many divergent minds and perspectives;
We drift apart.
But reconciliation doesn't lie,
From the schizo-paranoid position,
One reaches the melancholic-depressive
And with it,
The conditions for knowing oneself TO BE in life.
As one grows up, new challenges arise,
Explorations and knowledge,
But with each intellectual breath,
Laughter becomes more difficult.
For whoever eats the fruit of knowledge,
Is always expelled from some paradise.
We want to return,
To seek the comfort of union.
Some in God,
Others in Fraternity,
Others in romances,
In a new geniality.
But what every human soul seeks is to merge and not have to live in duality.
Just to flow,
Beyond good and evil,
Of death and life,
Like a deity,
To leave an eternal legacy in mortality.
And a happy life,
Filled with encounters in which separation has been reduced,
Thus healing,
The initial wound.
Ana Lúcia Senise
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