obituary for a famous tree (2)
this tree has a prominent place at home since many years, a painting by PeterPhillips peterphillipsart.co.uk/portfolio/hadrians_wall.html
I have just read in my newspaper about a trial planned in Newcastle - and have only just found out that one of England's most distinctive trees has been felled (already last autumn) by some idiots: the famous sycamore of "Sycamore Gap" on Hadrian's Wall.
I love this landscape and I loved this tree too. I am shocked and sad .... The old germanic people as well as native americans considered tree vandalism (Baumfrevel) as a heavy crime - to be punished by the gods... Why do people do so many senseless and destructive things? For me, this is another reason to think about Freud's theory of the death drive:In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors such as aggression, repetition compulsion, and self-destructiveness.
It seems to me that the way we treat people, trees and nature in general in these times underlines Freud's theory very strongly. Will we ever find an inner attitude and a way of life that respects and loves people, fauna and flora - and guarantees every creature space to live, enough food and air to breathe???
obituary for a famous tree (2)
this tree has a prominent place at home since many years, a painting by PeterPhillips peterphillipsart.co.uk/portfolio/hadrians_wall.html
I have just read in my newspaper about a trial planned in Newcastle - and have only just found out that one of England's most distinctive trees has been felled (already last autumn) by some idiots: the famous sycamore of "Sycamore Gap" on Hadrian's Wall.
I love this landscape and I loved this tree too. I am shocked and sad .... The old germanic people as well as native americans considered tree vandalism (Baumfrevel) as a heavy crime - to be punished by the gods... Why do people do so many senseless and destructive things? For me, this is another reason to think about Freud's theory of the death drive:In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors such as aggression, repetition compulsion, and self-destructiveness.
It seems to me that the way we treat people, trees and nature in general in these times underlines Freud's theory very strongly. Will we ever find an inner attitude and a way of life that respects and loves people, fauna and flora - and guarantees every creature space to live, enough food and air to breathe???