The gamblerThe gambler

I believe I had something like 4000 Gulden in my hands within 5 mins. that’s when I should have quit. But a funny feeling came over me, some sort of desire to challenge fate, an uncontrollable urge to stick my tongue out at it, to give it a flip on the nose.

fydor Dostoevsky

I believe I had something like 4000 Gulden in my hands within 5 mins. that’s when I should have quit. But a funny feeling came over me, some sort of desire to challenge fate, an uncontrollable urge to stick my tongue out at it, to give it a flip on the nose.

fydor Dostoevsky

Tempting Fate: A Gambling Story

Tempting Fate: A Gambling Story

the gambler the gambler

• fydor Dostoevsky

• The story

• fydor Dostoevsky

• The story

the gambler the gambler

• The money itself is not the goal. What draws him is the gambling, he cannot quit while he’s ahead but feels compelled to challenge fate.

• knowing one’s a gambler “I too was a gambler, and I became aware of at that very moment: my hand shook, my legs trembled. I felt as if something that struck me on the head”.

• The money itself is not the goal. What draws him is the gambling, he cannot quit while he’s ahead but feels compelled to challenge fate.

• knowing one’s a gambler “I too was a gambler, and I became aware of at that very moment: my hand shook, my legs trembled. I felt as if something that struck me on the head”.

The gambler: Existential Components

The gambler: Existential Components

• toward destruction

•Beyond sanity

• risking fate

• “one moment of risk and winning is worth the constant anxiety pervades one’s life”.

•When we talk getting of our addictions “it’s always tomorrow” always “if only”.

• toward destruction

•Beyond sanity

• risking fate

• “one moment of risk and winning is worth the constant anxiety pervades one’s life”.

•When we talk getting of our addictions “it’s always tomorrow” always “if only”.

The gambler: Existential Components

The gambler: Existential Components

• the moneylender Has become the wheel

• inwardly the moneylender is the figure in the psyche driving us to risk more and more

• the gambler and the moneylenders spend together in the psyche – for without the gamble to get something for nothing – the moneylender would have no power.

•We were shortcut to ecstasy and cut off building patience and character

• the moneylender Has become the wheel

• inwardly the moneylender is the figure in the psyche driving us to risk more and more

• the gambler and the moneylenders spend together in the psyche – for without the gamble to get something for nothing – the moneylender would have no power.

•We were shortcut to ecstasy and cut off building patience and character

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• Essential to the gambler of the elements of risk taking, fear, danger

• the gambler has a remarkable ability to cope with dangers while lacking the ability to control the impulses that precipitate a dangers

• so they create dangers to keep themselves back and to give the illusion of their own power once again face these dangers

• Essential to the gambler of the elements of risk taking, fear, danger

• the gambler has a remarkable ability to cope with dangers while lacking the ability to control the impulses that precipitate a dangers

• so they create dangers to keep themselves back and to give the illusion of their own power once again face these dangers

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analyzing Jack analyzing Jack

• Risk became his God

• “my life started getting crazier and crazier”

• three marriages

• hallucinogens

• babies born the same day/different women

• this was California this was life in the 60s

• but his art started getting better / Sporting himself

• continued to take “unreasonable risks”

• Risk became his God

• “my life started getting crazier and crazier”

• three marriages

• hallucinogens

• babies born the same day/different women

• this was California this was life in the 60s

• but his art started getting better / Sporting himself

• continued to take “unreasonable risks”

analyzing Jack analyzing Jack

• Dealing and drugging

• third marriage

• leaving both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

• stabbed by a woman/critical condition but as art was becoming a huge success

• couldn’t handle the success begins during his own artwork and turned into a street addict

• 15 hospitalizations/breakdowns later he began recovery process

• Dealing and drugging

• third marriage

• leaving both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

• stabbed by a woman/critical condition but as art was becoming a huge success

• couldn’t handle the success begins during his own artwork and turned into a street addict

• 15 hospitalizations/breakdowns later he began recovery process

summing up Jack and the gambler

summing up Jack and the gambler

•become bored dark side

•One daytime existence

•descent into darkness, he said, was important because it gave him up and understanding of the of the depths of human hell

• “the descent into darkness gave me knowledge but it also killed me… You can’t separate the black and white of the yin/yang wheel of life… I’m gambling on faith and openness and the quiet excitement of serenity”

•become bored dark side

•One daytime existence

•descent into darkness, he said, was important because it gave him up and understanding of the of the depths of human hell

• “the descent into darkness gave me knowledge but it also killed me… You can’t separate the black and white of the yin/yang wheel of life… I’m gambling on faith and openness and the quiet excitement of serenity”