Madhu Sameer

Something I wrote eons ago….sharing now, as it seems less threatening…     Long ago, in 1993 or thereabouts, I worked as a CIO at Sharjah Airport in UAE. One late evening , everyone had left as it was around 7:00pm. Being an IT professional, I – as IT professionals often do – often worked…

According to an old Hindu legend, there was a time when all human beings were gods, but they abused their divinity. So, Brahma, the chief god, decided to take the divinity away from them and hide it somewhere they could never find it. Brahma called a council of the gods to help him decide where…

It is cold here, most days are overcast. Often it rains. But the showers are intense and quick to end, and the sunshine returns within minutes. That is the kind of rain I like. It rejuvinates without overwhelming. The days are getting longer and warmer. The winter ebbs, yielding to the early spring. All is…

Memory Traces have been implicated under psychoanalytic theories, and are designated as the root cause of psychopathology, and behavioral issues. I have been thinking about about memory traces over the last few days, trying to conceptualise them, define them, and understand what the term entails. Finally, after several hours of thinking thru, and reading, I decided…

Many years ago,  one day, out of the blue, I suddenly awakened to the world of opposites, of dualism. I had comfortably existed as an undifferentiated part of the universe, without any special awareness of the nature of the universe, or my part in it. Either I was an extension of the universe, or the…

Originally posted on Senselogic: In his lecture On Melancholy and an essay entitled Melancholy and the Act, Slavoj Žižek claims that melancholia occurs not when we lose the object, but rather when the object is still here although we no longer desire it. According to Zizek, melancholia as Freud defines it in Mourning and Melancholia,…

I am told that September has been nominated as an Autism and ADHD month. My blog is an offering to those unfortunate children whose anxiety is demonised because of ignorance about this so called “disorder”. Thousands of kids in US are labelled  as ADHD kids everyday. Their lives are torn apart by the diagnosis that…

“In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of…

Ramadan Mubarak. Reblogging this old post without any dilution of feelings… Religious Identity, and Eid-Ul-Zuha.

The edited version of the paper I presented at the Conference for Hate Studies at Spokane, WA. I have deleted citations and references for ease of reading. The last paper on Music had been, I realised, a difficult read with all those citations etc. Introduction This paper has grown out of my own ambivalence and…

I haven’t been able to write much in the last few weeks. Life has moved at a hectic pace,  and in an effort to slow it down, I have had to give up some of my favorite things, one of them being writing. And for the next few weeks the pace is not going to…

Quite a number of my friends, foes, colleagues, neices, nephews, and others, are dealing with pregnancy and childbirth at the moment. I reblog this post for them, and all those others who have kept it alive by returning to it day after day since it was first written. Be well. Be happy. M. http://www,madhusameer.com Of recent, my psyche has gravitated…

So you have decided to seek therapy, but now you don’t know how to go about selecting a therapist. Here are a few guidelines that will help make this daunting task easier. Psychotherapy vs Counseling You can choose a counselor, or you can choose a psychotherapist. Whereas you may not think the difference is important,…

“Whatever is inside, is replicated outside in the external reality” This is a common mantra in psychological circles. Carl Gustav Jung’s extensive work with alchemical processes helped rescue alchemy from the dungeons of mere chemical strivings of a few men who existed in the margins of society. He helped explicate alchemy as a search for the Self and a projection of…

What do fathers really do? What function do they achieve in a child’s life? How do fatherless children fundamentally differ from those that are fathered?  How boys are affected vs how girls are affected. Based on the works of Mahler, Lacan, jung, Chodorow and Winnicot, this article that explores how our fathers have unconsciously affected our values, beliefs…

Your relationship with your father and then fathering your own child is a very special, and developmentally significant experience that enables you to learn a lot about human interaction – not just within your family system, but with people on the outside of thatcircle, with the world, and all inanimate objects and processes that surround us…

On the intrapsychic level of human existence, there appears little difference between religion, alcohol, meditation, sex and drugs.  This might come as a surprise to a lot of people, and the more religious minded may think of it as blasphemy, but it isn’t, so bear with me as we walk thru the psychological pathways populated with…

……appears such a monumental task to me.  Its almost like marriage, a commitment to myself, to my readers, to the community, to the world at large. A commitment for quality, to leave the world a “better” place for the words that I distribute here. And I wondered why I took upon such a heroic task…