Farewell Wang Wei (701-761)
Dismounting, let me share your farewell wine
Where, friend are you heading now?
Choking, fate has not been kind to me
Will retire to the southern slopes to seek rest
Enquire no more when I am gone
Till the end of clouds, endless white clouds!
One of the poems sung in Das Lied von der Erde
Most of us assumed that therapy is about helping a patient in many different ways, but with the patient described in this Chapter he in fact introduced me to Mahler, his music and his struggles: a sort of inverted therapy.
........Joshua and I were able to talk about Mahler's struggles, the sadness brought by the death of his daughter and the Rheumatic Heart Disease that eventually led to his death
One day he was able to declare that his struggles were nothing compared to Mahler's.
It is interesting that he never really talked about his own sadness as Mahler's overshadowed his and yet in true traditional psychotherapy style he gained his own insight..........
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