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Psychoanalysis needed the inclusion of linguistics not just because language divides the subject from the body but because language is our only relation to said body. This is why we need to be extremely critical of somatic therapies or psychedelic promises of deeper human truths.
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Freud might be one of the most self reflective writers I’ve ever read. Every critique you have of him he probably made of himself. And he’s so damn pleasant to read. He writes like an analysand speaks.
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Psychoanalysis was created to tell us that our childhood experiences play a more significant role in shaping our lives than we want to commonly recognize. Unfortunately, this brilliant insight has been overshadowed by the medicalization of various aspects of human existence.
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“You are, we are, all traumatized by the misunderstandings (malentendu) of our parents. They don’t hear themselves yelling” - Jacques Lacan, last public words.
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“the only criticism I have to make of you, if I may, is that you all want to appear too clever. Everybody knows you are. So why do you want to appear as such? And, in any case, what is so important, either about being or appearing to be so?”
-Lacan, to his students
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Decided I wanted to have the absolute worst “what did you do this summer” answer.
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The moral imperative to be in therapy is wrong and dilutes the essence of any therapeutic cure. One should want to enter therapy because they are suffering, not to fulfill an obligation to be a good person.
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What makes psychoanalysis so important to anti-capitalist movements lies in its focus on reimagining & retelling the past, challenging the forward-looking drive for progress & productivity that dominates our capitalist society. It is inherently a radical practice.
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I think the only true parenting lesson psychoanalysis is qualified to give is that one of the best things you could do for your child is work very hard on transforming your relationship with your anxiety before they get here.
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“It is absolutely clear that we are lost if we start from the idea that the psychoanalyst is the one who knows better than anyone else.”
-Lacan
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& I feel like I must add that this isn’t to say the medical breakthroughs in psychology are of no use, that would be ludicrous. But the society we create around a world of strictly pathology to the exclusion of relationships, loss, and enjoyment as determinants is a scary world.
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“The people that want [Psychoanalysis] to be a science are the ones who think that really all knowlege is physics. [...] You're never going to find out about guilt, and good and evil, and love and hate, from physics […]
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The Adam Phillips quote on Lacan & the ‘love they neighbor’ story, in longer form, is brilliant.
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For analysts in their own analysis, I don’t think it’s about understanding yourself through psychoanalysis but understanding psychoanalysis through yourself.
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Some therapists on here spend a lot of time criticizing the therapeutic landscape, not to enhance the field but to imply only they know what true therapy is AKA the holders of the keys. An extremely off-putting strategy if you ask me.
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The hereditary nature of a psychological illness as a genetic predisposition provides a compelling reason for us to avoid investigating our own thoughts and behaviors. But, psychology could refer to something acquired through exposure to a parent, or lack there of.
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Saw an amazing presentation yesterday at the Lacan conference discussing the way liberalism allows for white guilt to be a form of activism. How feeling good about feeling bad distinguishes Heros from Villains. Infecting us in movies (marvel), therapy, conspiracies, etc.
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“what appears to be reality is in fact only a reflection of a forgotten past.”
-Freud
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Sometimes when I’m at a psychoanalytic conference or something like that, I’d love to just talk to someone about the NBA finals or the new Scorsese movie or something normal rather than be apart of 100 conversations about everyone’s 19th century dissertation focus.
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While I acknowledge psychoanalysis is primarily a therapeutic modality to better a patient’s life, it also allows for the question: what is more anti-capitalist than throwing money at no guarantees of product, success, or efficiency? & instead receiving space for more thought.
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Somewhat recently, I received a copy Janet Malcolm’s Psychoanalysis: The Inpossible Profession in the mail but have no idea who sent it to me. I’m finally getting around to reading it, and I can’t thank this mysterious person enough.
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That article about TikTok therapists is not only one part a morally bankrupt therapeutic practice but the copy & paste trend to share advice to the masses, is a complete denial of the individuality and subjectivity of each person that steps into the clinical office.
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When I was little, all I wanted to do was speak to animals, or more precisely have them speak to me. But now that I’m an adult, who has read Lacan, I wouldn’t wish language on my worst enemy if possible.
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“One common misconception about the nature versus nurture debate is that the results of nurture are easier to change than the results of nature."
-Mari Ruti
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The reason it’s really misguided to think that psychoanalysis is back in any fashion is because the idea of finding satisfaction in contradiction is so far from what is even approached. We are promised whole satisfaction everywhere we go, maybe now in more ways than ever.
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I cannot understand why anyone gives this much attention to those big psychologist accounts who constantly publicly diagnose people they don’t know, especially oppositional political groups, and only tweet DSM/PDM mad-Libs 100 times a day.
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In a word, the analysand seems to both want and not want [the analyst] to notice something, and [the analyst] must always side with the part of the analysand that wants her to notice (not with the analysand's defenses).
-Bruce Fink
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“What does [capitalism] reject? Well, castration. Any order, any discourse that aligns itself with capitalism, sweeps to one side […] matters of love.”
-Lacan
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Freud at his most radical & interesting is in denying immortality by talking about the role of self-preservative instincts. They are not ensuring life but ensuring that our death comes organically. We avoid inorganic death so that we can die properly.
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One of the most incredible psychoanalytic insights to me (while maybe somewhat contradictory) is the accumulation of knowledge may allow us to think we know more about the world and ourselves but is in actuality isolating us from “knowing” ourselves more and more.
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Maybe have never disagreed or disliked a passage from a book more than this one ever.
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"for, as subjects, we are born of our parents’ desire, not of their bodies."
-Bruce Fink
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“The individual who has developed the capacity to be alone is constantly able to rediscover the personal impulse, and [it] is not wasted because the state of being alone is something which (though paradoxically) always implies that someone else is there.”
-Winnicott
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The richness and greatness of Freud's achievement lies in the fact that he found these contradictions fruitful rather than sterile, he found them a road inward rather than a dead end to nowhere.”
-Michael Sugrue
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“Any phenomenon that tends to trouble people, for whatever reason, seems to instigate this futile chasing after non-stigmatizing language.”
-Nancy McWilliams
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“Love doesn’t take me ‘above’ or indeed ‘below’. It is an existential project: to construct a world from a decentered point of view other than that of my mere impulse to survive or re-affirm my own identity.”
-Alain Badiou
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I disagree with Zizek here. The ends of Analysis that Lacan argues for, is not only a dissolution of that fundamental fantasy but also an unearthing of some way of (autoerotic) being, or more aptly a drive satisfaction. This ability to simply “be” is the antidote to the cynicism.
“One has to correct Lacan here: the ultimate, most radical subjective position is not that of the analyst—which is the usual psychoanalytic idea, when you discover there is no big Other, that we are in an abyss—and this is as far as we can go. No...
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"Most people do not themselves know how interesting they really are, what interesting things they really say. A true representation of themselves—a sketch and assessment of what they say would evoke the greatest amazement in them about them."
-Novalis
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Forgot about this. If this doesn’t justify Freud’s entire Oeuvre idk what will.
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I was speaking to a therapist recently who said she was scared of using the Freudian couch because it cuts off any ability to be relational, a scary solitude. Idk if this is comforting but it’s in that moment of perceived isolation that we are the most relational with the other.
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"It is a long superseded idea, and one derived from superficial appearances, that the patient suffers from a sort of ignorance, and that if one removes this ignorance by giving him information ... he is bound to recover."
-Freud, ‘Wild’ Psycho-Analysis
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As Lacan pointed out as far back as the 50’s, language & speech have been sidelined as the focal point in talk therapy. But it’s in the utterance of speech, not in finding or avoiding what’s behind it, that we find true change. Talking is truth, it is not a means to the truth.
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A mentor of mine shared some notes she had on Winnicott and had this line about him that I love:
“He writes elusively, and he does this on purpose because he wants to invite your participation to be able to think about the themes.“
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Trying this with my analyst.
3. Don't react to a silent treatment: if they shut down or ignore you, allow them. The silent treatment is a method of control, and not engaging sends a clear message that you'll only communicate to a person who is willing.
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I love that Freud addresses normality like this & in the same essay defines the alternation of the ego as “a deviation from the fiction of a normal ego." Implying that analysis is not a practice meant to reinstate some normal or good ego but the work of dealing with fiction.
"But a normal ego of this sort is, like normality in general, an ideal fiction."
-Freud
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Less technical psychoanalytic writing, more poetic psychoanalytic writing. I largely assume most people didn’t get into this field due to their love of mathemes (which I’m not saying are to be ignored) but rather because of the beautiful mess that is the human being.
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Oedipus Complex is the cornerstone of psychoanalysis & has clinical relevance. Reading it (& rejecting) as successful if mom & dad create heterosexual child is a bad reading. Paternal & maternal functions are navigated for a psychic structure, crucial for a clinical diagnosis.
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"But a normal ego of this sort is, like normality in general, an ideal fiction."
-Freud
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“all neurotic unpleasure is of that kind—pleasure that cannot be felt as such.”
-Freud
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“The task of psychoanalysis is thus in clear opposition to worldviews. It does not interpret reality by feeding it with more meaning - it creates the conditions under which the subject will be able to produce a transformative act.”
-Samo Tomšič
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Dudes could put down the Bible and pick up Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and feel so much better about themselves.
This dude blames satan for making him attracted to trans women lol
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Why does the idea that the cause of certain illnesses being psychological elicit so much anger in people? It doesn’t have to result in taking blame but rather achieving agency over our bodies.
This tweet is brave.
It’s likely that the majority of the chronic illnesses that people post most often about having online are psychogenic diseases. That doesn’t mean they’re faking it, or that they caused it. That doesn’t mean they’re not “real.”
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Psychoanalysis’ focus on language is so great because I know the first thing most analysts would pick up on repeat back would probably be “love your kids to death?”
There is nobody on earth that loves their kids and doesn’t regret having 7 of them more than Alec Baldwin
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Examining the (unconscious) enjoyment in our pain doesn't deny the reality of the pain; it’s a surplus experience. The crux is whether pain or enjoyment drive us to repeat. If it's pain, repetition seems illogical; if it's joy, repetition makes sense.
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“I’m sorry that the two words Jacques Lacan are intimidating. I think it’s a shame for him and a shame for us.”
-Adam Phillips
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"we should first (not 'understand' but) change our past, reinterpreting it in such a way that it opens up towards a different future."
– Slavoj Žižek
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“Drive without desire is always going to be exploited. Desire without drive is always going to be depressed or melancholic, it’s going to be hysteric”
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I’m sure this is well meaning but statements like this position therapy as some imperative to go to if you want to be good, or moral, or smart, etc. Also what even is a successful person? Rich? That’s even worse tbh.
Why do you think so many successful people go to therapy?
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While there’s definitely something to be said about 2 bodies in a room together, for psychoanalytic work to thrive in a world going remote, all it needs is speech (phone analysis works). The phone innately puts the patient on the couch & keeps all focus on the words.
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In my analysis I was talking about accidents & I was mentioning a road accident I was in by saying “the accident’s date was…” but instead of saying 2020 I accidentally said my birth year. These linguistic moments of absolute disaster really are the core of the magic.
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@BraedenHysuickW
Yes love this! Makes sense why Jung’s work has taken off more than Lacan in the masses and with anti-intellectuals like Jordan Peterson. Would love to find some Lacan vs Jung texts.
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Darian Leader made an excellent point in a talk today where he argues that it is not the increase of diagnostic categories since the 60s and 70s that lead to an increase in medicines but the other way around. The diagnosis then becomes something of a self fulfilling prophecy.
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Speaking on the radical & romantic act of going into a psychoanalysis tomorrow at Ghent University for the Lacan Today Conference.
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“Being a theorist—at least the kind of theorist that I am—means giving up the fantasy of (phallic) mastery; it means that 1 can never be sure of anything, that everything is purely hypothetical, that the point is to question everything rather than to provide answers.”
-Mari Ruti
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Psychoanalysis may not validate our thoughts and feelings but it very well may validate our individuality that happens to be complicated and confusing.
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Don't listen to Freud! Suppressing your fears or negative thoughts is actually a good idea!
Training people (120 participants from different countries) to suppress their fears had positive effects.
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"The aim to abolish the non-relation (and to replace it with a Relation) is, rather, the trade- mark of all social repression. Sexual difference and the oppression of women are very good examples of this."
-Alenka Zupancic
Tech exec predicts ‘AI girlfriends’ will create $1B business: ‘Comfort at the end of the day’
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“I would never have expected a psychoanalyst to be so taken in by the ego. In reality the ego is like a clown in the circus, who is always putting in his oar to make the audience think that whatever happens is his doing.”
-Freud
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"psychoanalysis is a science of public speech based on how we learn (or fail to learn) to ‘speak well,’ according to the rules of a given language game; a discourse about how virtue is mapped on to certain tendencies in oral expression.”
-Kurt Newman
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Lacan has this great point in The Subversion of the Subject where he ties the focus of ego strengthening in psychoanalytic theory to its suitability with the “American way of life.”
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“For the neurotic, there is always some sort of explanatory principle; there is always a little story, vague and confusing as it may be, about why our parents wanted us
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There is SO much “healing” talk and identity politics talk that is just straight up narcissism.
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N. McWilliams notes that a child achieving a sense of wholeness is crucial for handling disturbing impulses via repression. But this kind of misunderstands Freud. It's our inability to attain self-wholeness that ill-equips us to manage repression i.e. the return of the repressed.
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“Perhaps we need the experience of vanishing in order to discover anew the process of building ourselves and our world up from nothing.”
-Michael Eigen
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Copjec & Zupancic write on Lacanian sex & sexuality so well & so beautifully and with so much liberation engrained in their work. Imo, working through their texts could lead to some amazing insight on sexual identity & sexual freedom.
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Lacan’s seminars are already a challenge to read but in S16 he shows up one day with a 102 degree fever and my man is taking you on a journey.
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“The unconscious is the chapter of my history that is marked by a blank or occupied by a lie: it is the censored chapter. But the truth can be refound; most often it has already been written elsewhere.”
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“The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself … I have got to alter myself so completely that at the end I should hardly be recognizable as the same person."
- George Orwell
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5 minutes into Stutz (2022) and what the fuck? Everything I dislike about therapy is being pushed like a god send.
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“Right-wing enjoyment is an enjoyment always under siege. […] there has to be an endless supply of enemies or omnipresent threats. If these threats don’t exist then they have to be fantasized into existence.”
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I'm oversimplifying but IMO a huge fundamental flaw of the therapy that is predominant today is this understanding that there is someone out there who can train and gain enough knowledge to tell us exactly what is wrong with our mental health and then tell us how to fix it.
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“There is neither need nor justification for replacing the psychological problem with the anatomical one.”
-Freud
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The liberal obsession with shaming others as a political project is transparently narcissistic. I know the intentions are typically very well meaning but essentially there is this fantasy that conservatives will embrace their shame and humble themselves.
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Psychoanalytic work that’s primary mission is to allow the unconscious to speak is inherently a radical political act. So the political motivations of the analyst don’t matter if they’re truly positioning themselves in the analytic discourse.
The politics speak for themselves.
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Theory is to practice as unconscious is to conscious. If your practice isn’t working for you, it might be worth going back to the drawing board to work on the theory.
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While academics & therapists duke it out, it’s important to remember (I say as someone in both camps) that everyone else finds both groups insufferable.
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@BraedenHysuickW
Yes love this! Makes sense why Jung’s work has taken off more than Lacan in the masses and with anti-intellectuals like Jordan Peterson. Would love to find some Lacan vs Jung texts.
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It's unfortunate when therapists think academics who engage with psychoanalytic theory are simply performing an academic exercise in their distance from clinical work. Maybe for some that's true, but for so many more, theory is grounded in a true love & hope for this world.
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This brings together Marx & psychoanalysis better than any philosopher who has actively tried.
“The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself … I have got to alter myself so completely that at the end I should hardly be recognizable as the same person."
- George Orwell
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@pourfairelevide
I vowed off applying for doctoral programs for a very long time solely because I never heard one person say a good thing about it, quite literally ever.
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