On Sweeping
July 24, 2006 | People & Society
On my lunchtime errand walk the phrase, "Swept me off my feet" popped into mind. I decided that it's a lot easier to sweep someone off their feet once you know them—who they are, what they like, how they're motivated. Via amplification and inversion, the feeling of being swept off your feet prior to really knowing someone could be interpreted as a dangerous sign of projection or transference.
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Considered rationally, anyway.
Allowing for more than the rational, one might say that comets, from their long and lonely sojourns outside the paths of planets, do sometimes strike the earth. The subsequent reaction of the earth cannot be usefully ascribed to psychological processes.
Posted by: Doug at July 31, 2006 10:02 AM
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