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Adamas (Adam.)

Adamas (Adam.) appears in 277 rubrics in the repertory. Of these, 36 are single-remedy rubrics listing only this remedy, and 13 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Delusions (38 rubrics in all), Anger, and the mistakes a person makes in writing and speaking, as well as on Marriage and Family. From these emerges the picture of a person who dreams himself into experiences of expanse, multiplication, and elevation, and who in the everyday life of the family longs for clarity and withdrawal.

Multiplication and Elevation

The most striking feature lies in the Delusions. The person experiences himself as multiplied: he has four arms, four hands, four faces, he must work for two, and two things happen at once. He also experiences himself as elevated, as an Indian prince, as living in abundance, and assigned to Adamas alone is the idea "Delusions – god, great Tibetan". To this belong cosmic images, such as "Delusions – galaxies, spiral, revolving", the feeling that everything sparkles, and the certainty of a harmony, an order and clarity of everything. A series of rubrics shifts the body schema: the right half of the body is larger than the left, the right side of body and head is elongated, one looks halfway onto the world with eyes closed.

Clarity, Withdrawal, and Family

The elation is opposed by a wish for distance. A single-remedy rubric records the desire to leave the house in order to lead a clear life without the chaos of the family: "Home, at – desire to leave home – to lead a clear life without the chaos of the family". At the same time, exuberant love for one's own family stands among the small rubrics, and a single-remedy rubric lists the desire to hide in the earth. Together both point to a person who seeks closeness and at the same time experiences it as disordered and oppressive.

Marriage and Body

Strikingly many single-remedy rubrics concern the relationship to the spouse: aversion to him during coition and before menses, irritability toward him before menses, a feeling of distance during coition. Beside them stand unhappiness about one's own body and a mood of misery during menses. This can be read as a withdrawal from the bodily into the inner expanse of the delusory images.

Anger

Anger occurs with irregular heartbeat, after a cold, and quickly. A single-remedy rubric records that consolation ameliorates it, another that the angry person wants support and attention: "Anger – support, attention, wants". The anger would thus be less an attack than an expression of a need for support. Related to it are the mistakes in writing, in which the first letter is omitted, and the weak memory even for the names of close friends.

Summary

Adamas shows in the repertory a person whose self-experience expands, multiplies, and exalts itself, while everyday life in marriage and family is regarded as unclear and confining. From the wish for order arise withdrawal and distance, from suppressed neediness the quick anger that seeks attention.

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