ABSTRACT
There is a difference between transformation and change. Mainstream therapy promotes positive change – a desirable, realistic goal, yielding in some cases a degree of social adaptation and a handful of feel-good outcomes. These often revolve around the client's own wishes and projects. This type of investigation remains superficial. It is, strictly speaking, ego-therapy rather than psyche-therapy. It is driven by the conscious ego-self; it is managerial, dealing with adjustments in response to the injuries and aspirations of the ego-self while staying well clear of psyche a lavish term whose meaning include organism, soul (Heraclitus’ ψυχῇ), the existential unknown. Taking inspiration from the latter, this chapter investigates the notion of transformation.
