psychoanalysis

dad joke

bird

trauma

Sigmund Freud

philosophy

Jacques Lacan

light bulb joke

psychoanalyst

infinity

physics

mummy

ancient egypt

happiness

psychologist

taco

oedipus complex

easter bunny

superego

is like music lessons, for five years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano. Woody Allen

is a church and a form of treatment based on a belief in a security of being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals.

Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals Gilles Deleuze

is a form of inquiry whose aim is to overcome resistances due to repression.

The aim of these different techniques has, of course, remained the same. Descriptively speaking, it is to fill in gaps in memory... dynamically speaking, it is to overcome resistances due to repression. (Freud 'remembering, repeating, and working through : 'complete' : 2498)

is a kind of conversation worth having only if it makes our lives more interesting, or funnier, or sadder, or more tormented, or whatever it is we value and want to promote.

Psychoanalysis as a form of conversation is worth having only if it makes our lives more interesting, or funnier, or sadder, or more tormented, or whatever it is about ourselves that we value and want to promote... and especially if it helps us find new things about ourselves that we didn't know we could value. New virtues are surprisingly rare. Adam Phillips

is a kind of magic capable of eliminating pathological disorders with mere words, because it concerns the way that science restores power to words which are nothing other than the watered-down magic of earlier times.

A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power. Freud

is a kind of ruthless critique, integral to the cultivation of an ethical capacity to take responsibility for the whole of our mental life.

With Freud, psychoanalysis is a ruthless critique that is integral to the cultivation of an ethical capacity to take responsibility for the whole of our mental life.

is a kind of treatment that aims to lead the patient to recognize, which is to say to create, and to bring into existence, creates a new presence in the world... one which is called 'the truth about his desire in speech'.

The aim of psychoanalytic treatment is to lead the analysand to recognize the truth about his desire. It is only possible to recognize one's desire when it is articulate in speech.

is a means of becoming conscious of all one's unconscious processes in order to become unconscious of them again.

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