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essential and refined in the wolf and it is here that the patient’s body image may suffer the most. Superficially we may think of courage, caring, obedience and loyalty but our language reflects our deeper feelings – puppy fat, you bitch, she’s a dog, canine hunger and the “black dog” of Churchill (Lilley). Common theme is contempt of himself or disgust towards his own body. Delusion he is dimin- ished – low self confidence, delusion that he is short and delusion, he is despised. Feeling they are not needed within their family. Not very sure of themselves with lots of anxieties about suc- cess. Low self confidence stems from abuse in childhood – especially sexual leading to feeling dirty, useless and inferior and degraded moral- ly. They hate those responsible for their abuse and will not be part of that group. The delusions of snakes symbolically represent frustrated sexual impulses or instincts with hidden aggression leading to antagonism with self and morals. Worries about health and thinks he has incurable disease and will die shortly.
Wolf (Lac lup)
What the dog should be! The most caring of our remedies for the family, (including the father), with dreams of rescuing children. Moon asso- ciations. Caves, snow, running, vast panora- mas, the pack, friends, loving, excitement, enthusiasm, helping, intruders, hunted, hunter, mortality and immortality, the outsider, danger and the desire for danger, fire. The mental state may be detached and confused.
Very alert with sharp senses.
They have behaviour patterns of being proud, intelligent, family oriented and highly
a great/strong person, cat-like, caged, anger, violence, intimidating, driven from the pride. Feeling that they are old and weak, feeling that others are trying to humiliate them, deceitful, thieving, respect! Herrick emphasizes the lazy husband.
As the lion of the jungle, honour is very strong but this can be wounded easily. Rubrics: ailments from wounded honour. The lion is master of the family, powerful, courageous and dignified. They are responsible and vigilant against danger and they are very competitive and aggressive in order to establish leadership. Perhaps this is why increased ambition is a very common theme. They are aggressive and hostile towards authoritative figures and want to maintain their position. They too have a very strong family bond but lack affection. They are so very powerful and strong and have bound- less energy, which they try to keep under con- trol. Dreams as if arms are longer than normal size, flying over water as superman. They want to fight particularly if their honesty is ques- tioned or their honour wounded. A lot of built up anger and feeling of being offended easily. NOTE THE LION TAKES ITS CUBS TO THE FOOD – ONLY ANIMAL THAT DOES THAT
Tiger
Available as blood or urine – the urine comes from a caged tiger, while the blood from a safari park. The Tiger truly is King of the Jungle being bigger and stronger than the lion – yet the title of King is given to the Lion. The Lion King vs. The Jungle Book! The lion is the nice guy – don’t mess with the tiger. Hardy writes that the themes are: I am the best, highest self-esteem,
tunate creatures, which died in untold num- bers, without the slightest idea of ,what the screaming and shooting was all about. Next, the horse was used and abused on the farm. Day in and day out, horses pushed and pulled and carried heavy loads, until they dropped from exhaustion. The final insult was that once their usefulness ended, they were sent to be killed and made into glue.” The term “breaking” says a lot about our relationship with horses.
Herrick lists the themes of Lac-e as: indifference and ennui, confrontational and nasty, organ- ized, impatient, irritability, killing and violence.
The mental state is summed up as:
• Efficient, well-organized
• Takes too much responsibility
• Anxiety on waking. Anticipation. Want of self-
confidence
• Delusion hindered
• Fear of insanity
• Desire to escape
• Estranged from family
• Anger when touched. Quarrelsome
• Complaining. Frustration at unsuccessful
attempts
• Restless, nervous
• Concentration difficult. Fuzzy • Mistakes in calculating.
Jayesh Shah talks of the trapped artificial side and the wild side. In the trapped side we see issues of trying too hard, feeling judged, trying to impress – a big struggle. Man comes up only after struggling, struggling and struggling. Man can achieve that level or that position only after a struggle.
socialized. They live in a family pack of 5 to 15 based around a dominant pair and ruled by strict domestic hierarchies. They hunt in packs covering over 35k of territory per day. The Lac- lup person maintains calmness and serenity during difficult and grave situations, indicating they have strong will-power and a sense of dis- crimination with strong control over senses. Strong family ties – if a member of the pack is sick and cannot hunt, they will take care of them and bring them food. They have a strong tie and trust unless they are betrayed, in which case they will cut their relationship. Rubrics: Aversion to company; censorious critical wants to blame other; delusion, belong to, family does not.
Owing to the domination in the hierarchy pattern, there may be a feeling of being domi- nated or feelings of being despised or looked down upon. Dreams of black cats, pigeons, fish, bears, dogs, whale, lion, children, family, friends.
They are loved by their friends and are very popular but can be difficult at home. Thus phosphoric – feel outcast within the family.
Lion
Protective, big hearted – what you see is what you get, the King of the Jungle, sympathetic, fierce, leader, ambitious, haughty, delusions is
born leader, challenging, doing great things, total independence and raw power. Together with the above are feelings of betrayal, being wronged, unacknowledged and mistrust.
Hardy writes that themes for wild cats gen- erally are pride, power, strength, courage, fierce, passion, animal awareness e.g. of body moving and muscles tensing etc, family, injustice.
Horse
From Herrick’s Animal Mind Human Voices we read: “One of the earliest uses of the noble beast was to drink his blood and eat his flesh.” “The Irish king even took a formal bath in horse soup at his inauguration ceremony.” “Man has subjugated the horse and used it for a variety of horrendous tasks. The horse, first and fore- most, has been used in battle. Everywhere, wars were fought on the backs of these unfor-
Image of carrying a burden or a load. All doors shut, slave like, like a tamed animal, like in a jail, they have sinned and are guilty. The free side is about running, freedom, light, fast, achieving, rivers, fear of attack, pursued. Passion, performance, pack, protection need for, pace and power.
The quandary of the horse is the desire for freedom, together with the desire for a leader. The horse is much happier being told what to do and gives respect and love to the leader of the herd. Could this be, why so many horses seem to respond well to Natrum mur – they need another for their identity? The father seems to be particularly important to the patient requiring lac-e.
The horse symbolically represents leisure and enjoyment of freedom. However, nowadays they are often suppressed and no longer enjoy the freedom of untamed days. They are expect- ed to work to please and to be as good as they can. They are extremely industrious. They are very sensitive to the emotions of others. They have great anxiety about the time being set and feel anxiety, when things are expected of them and may feel as if pursued.
The safety of the family is very important and if they are not able to work, they may have guilt and worries about not living up to the
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