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Psychoanalysis (n.) breeds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only Platonic heresies, because Freud is a Platonist: Jung keeps the archetypes and drops the rivalry, Klein keeps the conflict and freezes it in the first bond with the mother.

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Psychoanalysis (n.) must ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠keep multiplying essences, like structuralism — two masochisms, two Oedipus complexes — to square its timeless limbo with the real movement of the earth.

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Psychoanalysis (n.) thinks, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like the modern pseudo-sciences, that the way to fight the sacred is to attack the Judaeo-Christian tradition — and so returns uncritically to Greek myth, where violence rules.

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Psychoanalysis (n.) adds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠up to no doctrine: it opens gaps in our mythological delusions and promptly papers them over with others.

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Psychoanalysis (n.) finds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in the Passion's circle of persecutors the early Christians' paranoia, but never charges the victims of witch-hunts the same way; there the persecutor is attacked.

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Psychoanalysis (n.) interiorises ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the double and needs an imaginary demon inside the mind, while Matthew puts the demon in a real relation between two real persons.

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Psychoanalysis (n.) sees ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the double only as a ghost haunting one subject, never as what it is: two people actually fighting.

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Psychoanalysis (n.) rests ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on a solipsism: it studies the isolated subject and never the relation between two people.

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Psychoanalysis (n.) explains ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠incest forbidden and incest required with equal ease, which is the trouble: like crediting a locomotive's libido for trains going left and right, it lacks the junction boxes.