UNDERSTANDING ANIMAL KINGDOM

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• UNDERSTANDING ANIMAL KINGDOM
• Ashish G. Mehta
• Homeopathy 4 Everyone January, 2007

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• Animal kingdom is difficult as it demands
  understanding of animal kingdom from an animal
  (physician)
• To understand an animal (remedy) within an animal
  (Pt.) by an animal (physician), we require
  freedom from prejudice!!!!!!!!
• We are not at all ha..haha!
• Can PATIENTS make us learn about
• ANIMAL KINGDOM ????

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Animal Kingdom
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Animal Kingdom
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Animal Kingdom

• Competition is the rule in the animal kingdom.
• The theme of survival of the fittest holds true
  for all living creatures including algae, fungi,
  plants, etc., but is most evident in the animal
  world.
• A person needing an animal remedy immediately
  draws attention to himself by his clothing,
  behavior, etc.

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Animal Kingdom

• This need to attract attention - to be attractive
  - is an important aspect of their basic
  competitive nature.
• Their clothes attract attention because of the
  colour, design or fashion in which worn.
• That is not to say that they are always flashily
  dressed.

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Animal Kingdom

• The basic need is to attract attention, and this
  may be gained by wearing dull clothes to a party.
  
• They are dressed different from others, and this
  difference is noticeable.
• Their handwritings/signature is striking,
  eye-catching, aggressive.
• Even their behaviors is attention seeking.

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Animal Kingdom

• They are lively, vivacious - animated.
• Very alert, they maintain eye contact, looking
  for a reaction and are themselves quick to react.
  
• May be quite abrupt in the actions and speech.
• They are very expressive and communicates easily,
  seeming to have an extraordinary ability to make
  human contact.

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Animal Kingdom

• There is a strong desire for company and they are
  worse when alone.
• With these features of wanting to attract
  attention, to be better than others, they choose
  professions that have competition and advertising
  in some form.
• They can be very jealous of any competitor and
  may resort to any means including deceit to
  achieve their ends.

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Animal Kingdom

• They can be quite malicious.
• Their fears, understandably, are of being
  neglected, looked down upon, failure in
  competition/love, loss in attractiveness.
• Any of these features could become also an
  exciting factor, for example rejection, failure
  in competition.

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Animal Kingdom

• The complaints they present with are usually
  those which make them feel less attractive or
  less capable of competing successfully they may
  come from pimples, obesity, hair loss, etc.
• Even when the chief complaint is in another
  sphere, they almost invariably draw your
  attention to some feature which has to do with
  attraction/competition.

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Animal Kingdom

• This intense need to attract attention seems to
  have its basis in a split in self, as I
  understand it.
• In the minerals, we have seen that the
  complaints/reactions are restricted to one or two
  spheres.
• In the animal remedies, there seem to be two
  distinct entities coexisting in the same being.

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Animal Kingdom

• Further, the human part seems to have a contempt
  for the animal in the self.
• I have found this "split" personality in most
  patients who improved with animal remedies.
• The clue to this feeling about themselves is
  often to be found in their expressions "By human
  beings", "Human are so cruel", "I feel split up",
  "I jump at them", "I am not good enough", etc.

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Animal Kingdom

• Before converting these expressions into rubrics,
  it is worth our while to consider the underlying
  feeling.
• We find that animal remedies figure prominently
  in rubrics that cover a split in self
• "Antagonism with herself" Lac caninum,
• "Confusion of identity Sepia

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Animal Kingdom

• "Sense of duality" Lachesis, Naja
• "Delusion, double of being" Lachesis, Moschata,
  Theridion
• "Delusion, places, of being in two at the same
  time" Cenchris
• "Will, two wills, feels as if he had" Lachesis,
  Naja

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Animal Kingdom

• The same theme may be reflected in other rubrics,
  though not directly, for example
• "Contemptuous of self" Lac caninum
• "Delusion, looked down upon, she is"
• Lac
  caninum

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Animal Kingdom

• "Anger alternating with quick repentance"
  Lyssinum
• "Striking, knocking his head against the wall"
  Apis
• "Impulse to stab himself" Lyssinum.

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Animal Kingdom

• Having understood this "split", we can explain
  the two sides seen in them affectionate, warm,
  caring, play, faithful, communicative on the one
  hand, and jealous, aggressive, deceitful and
  malicious on the other.
• The aggression is a marked feature.

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Animal Kingdom

• They have a fear of being attacked and may
  respond by aggression.
• The dreams show many of the features described
  above.
• They have dreams of animal, snakes, pursuit,
  being attacked amorous dreams dreams of flying.
  
• They dream of something which is related to them
  chain / hunter / milk / grass / cage.

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Animal Kingdom

• The complaints are moderately paced, not as slow
  as the minerals nor as rapid as plants.
• The miasmatic range is from the acute to the
  syco-syphilitic

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Animal Kingdom

• To understand an animal we must look for what
  they refer in their narration how
• Any example - from their perception
• Any object how they relate themselves
• This will reveal their subjectivity to the object
• This subjectivity is their perception
• Their Perception will tell us their feeling
• These strong feeling are important for us
• As this symbolization is from unconscious part of
  us
• Repeated Gestures are most important

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Animal Kingdom

• Main issues of an animal remedy / patient
• Survival
• High Low
• Victim Aggressor
• Strong Weak
• Predator Pray
• Dominating dominated
• Listen what physician is asking about gesture

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Animal Kingdom

• Persecutor persecuted
• Camouflage ( hiding )
• Conflict
• Split within self , contradiction of will
• Sexuality
• Instinct to kill
• Group feeling / group verses me

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Animal Kingdom

• Communicative
• Amorous
• Aggressive
• Mischievous
• Restless
• Deceitful
• Malicious
• Jealous

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Animal Kingdom
The term Symbol means the best possible form of
expression of unknown content
The symbol transmit an unknown but highly
charged content of emotional impact through an
image of analogy and similarity
From Psyche Substance E.C.Whitmont
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Animal Kingdom

• Connection to source
• Attraction or aversion to any object / animal
• Strong fear or intense love to any object /
  animal
• Affectionate Caring
• Playful Alert
• Quick to react Animated
• Curious Expressive
• Listen Pt. give name of many animal but intensity
  is important

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Animal Kingdom

• At this stage
• Pt. will co-relate himself with the object /
  animal
• This occur so spontaneously that an alert
  physician can register (perceive)
• Symbolization occurs at deep level of
  unconscious and no persona is available(Jung)
• The collective unconscious is explored and the
  source archetypal image is available
  !!!!!!!!!!!

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• Acceptance and rejection of anything is
  expression of Polarity Principle