Compulsive activities are psychological
ways of trying to cope with unbearable memories and emotions. Sometimes people
have been through psychotherapy and recovered some of their memories, yet still
continue compulsive behavior, such as, for instance, alcoholism. This is a
puzzling issue. It points out that if we don’t have the awareness of God, we
have no place to go with these memories. They are no longer repressed; we are
aware of them consciously, but we cannot loose them; we don’t know what to do with
them, and they are still disturbing us.
Often, in psychoanalytic therapies, it is
recommended that we express our rage against the people, even punch them in the
nose, to feel better. The idea is that what. we have kept bottled up, we let
out and hurt those people back, and then we will feel better.
This is not forgiveness,
but a perpetuation of the conflict
There is no solution without God.
