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The Question of Lay Analysis
43 concepts · 62 definitions
- analysis2
- analyst2
- anxiety1
- candor1
- child analysis1
- childhood2
- civilization1
- confession1
- danger1
- doctor2
- drive1
- ego3
- ego strength1
- guilt1
- habit1
- id2
- idea1
- incest1
- knowledge1
- lay analysis1
- neurosis2
- prohibition2
- prudence1
- psyche1
- psychoanalysis7
- psychology2
- quack1
- recapitulation1
- regulation1
- repression1
- responsibility1
- science2
- secondary gain1
- secret1
- sexuality2
- subconscious1
- superego1
- training analysis1
- transference1
- transference-love2
- upbringing1
- will1
- word1
Psychoanalysis (n.) has its poison fangs pulled in untrained hands, to make it pleasant for the patient.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is magic by words, but so slow, months and years, that it loses its miraculous character.
Psychoanalysis (n.) swallowed by medicine would find its last resting-place in a psychiatry textbook, under "Methods of Treatment", beside hypnotism.
Psychoanalysis (n.) should be taught, Freud imagined, beside the history of civilization, mythology, religion and literature, not only beside medicine.
The Ego (n.) is the front line and the id is behind the lines: what is forbidden near the enemy, reality, is allowed in the rear.
The Ego (n.) steers a vehicle driven entirely by the id's energy; without the steering, no goal is ever reached.
The Ego (n.) is a façade on the id, its outer layer, worn into shape by contact with the world.
Childhood (n.) must cover in a few years the distance from the stone age to modern civilization, while fending off its own early desires.
Childhood (n.) has an early sexual period that is also a period of intellectual flowering, and latency dulls both.
Psychology (n.) is the science everyone thinks himself expert in, like the nurse who claimed to know babies because she had been one.
Psychology (n.) that cannot explain dreams cannot explain normal mental life either, and has no claim to be a science.
A Doctor (n.) helps patients best by working coolly and by the rules; too much therapeutic zeal is no gift to them.
A Doctor (n.) only in name was what Freud called himself after forty-one years: he came not to help but to understand the riddles of the world.
The Id (n.) knows no conflict: its contradictions sit side by side unconcerned, while the ego strains to make them one.
The Id (n.) is a plain pronoun in German, das Es, "the It", chosen to keep close to how ordinary people speak.
A Prohibition (n.) works best when terse: "Chi tocca, muore" on an Italian pylon; whoever values his life needs no more.
Prohibition (n.) piled on prohibition injures the authority of the law: few are kept, and the rest teach disregard.
Science (n.) is always one-sided, by its subject and its method, so no science can be played off against another.
Science (n.) is not revelation: it long lacks the certainty and infallibility thought longs for, and it is all we can have.
Sexuality (n.) should not be brought into an analysis, Freud told his pupils, so as not to spoil the chance of finding a case where it plays no part.
Sexuality (n.) is so dreaded that society will swallow any absurd theory advertised as an antidote to it.
Analysis (n.) is slow for the same reason an army is: it is held up for weeks on ground an express train crosses in two hours.
Analysis (n.) works over tons of ore for a few grains of meaning.