Cheek

The Seba library treats Cheek in 2 passages, across 2 authors (including Berry, Patricia, Palmer, G. E. H. and Sherrard, Philip and Ware, Kallistos (trs.)).

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brushing his cheek, letting him touch their breasts, touching his penis. But in each case, as he tried in the dream to move into actual love-making, these figures rebuffed him… each of these discrete attractions—the breast, the cheek, the longing—was important.

Berry argues that the cheek functions as an autonomous imaginal detail in dreams of unrequited desire, whose psychological significance resides in the incompleteness of contact rather than in any consummation it might lead toward.

Berry, Patricia, Echo's Subtle Body: Contributions to an Archetypal Psychology, 1982thesis

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'if someone hits you on the right cheek, turn to him the other cheek as well'… Why did He say this? Both to keep you free from anger and irritation, and to correct the other person by means of your forbearance.

The Philokalic commentary interprets Christ's injunction to turn the cheek as a psycho-spiritual discipline aimed at eradicating anger and establishing the practitioner in a state of perfect love through voluntary forbearance.

Palmer, G. E. H. and Sherrard, Philip and Ware, Kallistos (trs.), The Philokalia, Volume 2, 1981thesis

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