Analyzing our drives and motivations or listening to the
language of our dreams is a form of soul-searching.
To ignore our personal self in
our journey toward soul would be misguided; a form of self-erasure.
Grappling with our personal problems can be exasperating and frustrating, but it
brings us closer to our inner being, and allows us greater intimacy with soul.
Freud showed us how the soul could become aware of itself. To become acquainted with the lowest depth of soul - to explore whatever personal hell we may suffer from - is not an easy undertaking... this demanding and potentially dangerous voyage of self-discovery will result in our becoming more fully human. Freud often spoke of the soul... Unfortunately, nobody who reads him in English could guess this, because nearly all his many references to the soul, and to matters pertaining to the soul, have been excised in translation. ~ Bruno Bettleheim