#590035 - 02/08/1303:34 PMSome ex-presidents lead global initiatives ...
garyW
mid-century modern
Registered: 04/19/02
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… to battle famine, poverty and promote human rights. Some build homes for the homeless and represent justice and voting rights on international stages.
Others, well … ponder their existence and the deep and troubled human condition ...
" In so far as it is thanks to the male organ that we are able to come into the world at all, out of the amniotic fluid, a bridge becomes the crossing from the other world (the unborn state, the womb) to this world (life); and, since men also picture death as a return to the womb (to the water), a bridge also acquires the meaning of something that leads to death, and finally, at a further remove from its original sense, it stands for transitions or changes in condition generally. It tallies with this, accordingly, if a woman who has not overcome her wish to be a man has frequent dreams of bridges that are too short to reach the further shore. (Sigmund Freud, from New Introductory Lessons on Psychoanalysis).