Aldo Carotenuto

Looking at postings that've been read (in Blogger's "stats") sometimes prompts me to go back to the post and do some editing. Most recently I added links to the psychologists on the one about Maria Miles.

It's been a couple of years since I found The Vertical Labyrinth in a library's "Books For Sale" pile. What with the multiple, multi-colored page-markers, my copy looks like an anemone streaming Tibetan prayer flags.

I might have written the following myself...

"In retrospect, I must admit that I owe my very life and my realization—as in Italian we call the psychic achievement—to women, in the sense that they made possible the transformation of my inner energy by providing a canal into which it could flow." 

Curiously, there doesn't seem to be a Wiki article about Carotenuto. I took the above (an obituary or eulogy?) from the European Juournal of Psychoanalysis. It's quite a ways down.)

I do wonder if something is lost in the translation; "canal" seems a bit too Freudian -- After all, Aldo was a Jungian.