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funeral · 1 year

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D.W. Winnicott

#d.w. winnicott #psychoanalysis #quotes #p

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ooctlt · 1 month

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So Palamedes, psych major to psych major, have you started diagnosing your roommates yet?

#the plot thickens #palamedes sextus #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #griddlehark #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #artlog #backstory #psychoanalysis

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loneberry · 8 months

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For a certain kind of person — the person who, usually, strives to be a responsible parent, a sensitive friend, an upright citizen, a person who tries to care about their community — it can be impossible not to succumb to the incessant urge to mimic someone else’s supposed balance and feeling of wellness in life. What do we even know about them really?

I’m increasingly seeing this in my work as a therapist in New York City. So are my colleagues. One said to me recently that he was tired of listening to his patients talk about the impossible advice inhaled on Instagram and TikTok — to say nothing of the self-help industry. “Doesn’t anyone come asking to be more free?” he exclaimed. “They don’t,” I said pessimistically. “Everyone wants to make the right decisions.” The problem is it’s very hard to tell someone that pursuing the abstract question of “right and wrong” ways to live will lead you into a cul-de-sac. It avoids the deeper question of desire, and desire is a compass.

The promised image of goodness skirts pleasures that — for obscure reasons — you aren’t sure you can want. I see patients grow fearful when they can’t tell if what they desire is compulsive — just another rote, maybe addictive, behavior, or a real attempt to test the boundaries they live under. How do you locate free will in a world this compulsory? Unsettling desires challenge our perception of who we are and what life might look like. ...

My patients have spent time on the couch struggling with the joys and pains that come with their wish to take drugs, not to expand consciousness but just because; quit their job, not to re-evaluate life but simply to stop working (along with the bonus pleasure of thumbing their nose at their employers); or give in to an irksome captivation with the wrong person at the absolutely wrong time. ...

These pursuits certainly aren’t what you ought to do — much less post about — and yet I find that it’s when we dwell on our secret enjoyments that we learn the most about ourselves. Sexual and aggressive feelings, veering self-destructive, are finally confronted without the veneer of rationalization.

--Jamieson Webster, "I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You."

#Jamieson Webster #psychoanalysis #lacan #desire

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hauntedbystorytelling · 1 month

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Remedios Varo (1908-1963) ~ Mujer saliendo de psicoanalista (Podría ser Juliana), 1960. Oil on canvas | src MAMM

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#remedios varo #psychoanalysis #women artists #surrealist women #surrealism #surrealist painter #women painters #mujer saliendo del psicoanalista #1950s #1960 #painting #oil on canvas #remedios varo uranga

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thousurroundingverdure · 1 year

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#peter birkhäuser #inward gaze #romantic art #romanticism #art #painting #surreal #artist #nightmare #carl jung #dream interpretation #psychoanalysis

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philosophors · 10 months

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“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

— Carl Jung, “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”

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odettecarotte · 2 months

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A very paranoid patient I worked with for a long time, whose sanity was often at risk, had an uncanny feel for my emotional state. She would read it accurately, but then attach to her perception of it the primitive preoccupation she had about her own essential goodness or badness, as in "You look irritated. It must be because you think I'm a bad mother." Or "You look bored. I must have offended you last week by leaving the session 5 minutes early." It took her years to feel safe enough to tell me that was how she was interpreting my expressions, and several more years to transform the conviction "Evil people are going to kill me because they hate my lifestyle" into "I feel guilty about some aspects of my life."

Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis

One of the lessons I have taken away from McWilliams is her observation that mentally ill people are often correct in their/our observations of other people's distress, however, their attribution of WHY that person is distressed is often skewed.

#nancy mcwilliams #psychoanalytic diagnosis #psychoanalysis #psychosis #paranoia

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thepursuitofunderstanding · 11 months

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The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Carl Jung

#Carl Jung #Jung #quotes #life #wisdom #philosophy #psychology #psychoanalysis #the privilege of a lifetime #become who you truly are #the self #idea #ideas

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x3nshit · 1 year

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rip sigmund freud you would’ve loved living in the generation where we use “daddy” and “mommy” to refer to people we find attractive 💀

#sigmund freud #freudism #freud #freud would have a field day #psychoanalysis #psychology #philosophy #desiblr #academia #desi academia #dark academic aesthetic #desi dark academia #dark academism #art academia #chaotic academic aesthetic #chaotic academia #academia aesthetic #stem academia #stemblr

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brownsugar4hersoul · 4 months

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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

― Carl Gustav Jung

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epistula-nonerubescit · 11 months

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reading and studying freud's essays is not so relaxing, it takes me an hour to partially decipher two pages 💚

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funeral · 4 days

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Guattari’s idea is both refreshing and profound. He suggests that when a person experiences psychosis, her psychosis changes according to her surroundings, and, therefore, treating her with fear by locking her up, keeping her in restraints, overmedicating her, and exposing her to other methods of suppression only serves to change her psychosis to a psychosis of fear and paranoia. Who, psychotic or not, in the same situation wouldn’t also feel terror and paranoia? Indeed, there is a legitimate reason to be paranoid and afraid. Further, the shock of being treated inhumanly, the sense of alienation and of betrayal, and, perhaps paramountly, the realization that humans can and do treat other humans in this way, is itself shocking and traumatizing. It is a shock and trauma that alters the psyche, changing the personality of the person who undergoes it.

Cynthia Cruz, Disquieting: Essays on Silence

#cynthia cruz #félix guattari #psychoanalysis #psychosis #excerpts #quotes #p

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crucipuzzled · 1 year

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Low and Hurried Up budget Productions presents:

This nameless thing, not too spoilery, to commemorate the Psychiatry episode of SxF anime. I'll give it a provisory title: Loid goes lacanian and has a normal reaction. Welcome aboard pal, we have free gastric ulcers and cookies... Yor-made cookies.

Low Budget Productions will probably enter either a hiatus state or a ralentized rythm of production due to working reasons.

#spy x family #anya forger #loid forger #yor forger #bond forger #jacques lacan #sigmund freud #psychoanalysis #fan comic

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rainbowdelicsunshine · 3 months

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Please go into my inbox to psycho-analyze me like one of those long video essays about cartoons and tv shows....