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9bd0bc0
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"A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves."
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philosophy
psychoanalysis
psychology
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Erich fromm |
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1978813
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When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
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engineering
psychoanalysis
psychology
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William Gibson |
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6ff3924
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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lovers
romance
inspiration
inspirational-quotes
love
inspirational
psychoanalysis
psychiatry
psychology
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Sigmund Freud |
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357e505
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There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
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religion
psychoanalysis
evil
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Erich Fromm |
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cd07267
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...it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.
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psychoanalysis
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Robert A. Johnson |
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1e345c8
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"The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light, and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light which shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it. The filius solis et lunae (the son of the Sun and Moon) is the possible result as well as the symbol of this union of opposites. It is the alpha and omega of the process, the mediator and intermedius. "It has a thousand names," say the alchemists, meaning that the source from which the individuation process rises and the goal toward which it aims is nameless, ineffable."
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enlightenment
religion
coniunctio-oppositorum
the-meaning-of-life
individuation
psychoanalysis
christ
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C.G. Jung |
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9089908
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How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.
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enlightenment
suffering
light
depression
self-awareness
psychoanalysis
darkness-and-light
darkness-within
light-of-love
light-of-the-spirit
painful-memories
self-analysis
treatment
healing-the-past
spiritual-healing
spiritual-wisdom
grief-and-loss
therapy
ego
self-help
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Marianne Williamson |
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f1eeedd
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If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke, then I would not be able to articulate anything at all. The ego, or consciousness, can therefore only work by repressing this turbulent activity, provisionally nailing down words on to meanings. Every now and then a word from the unconscious which I do not want insinuates itself into my discourse, and this is the famous Freudian slip of the tongue or parapraxis. But for Lacan all our discourse is in a sense a slip of the tongue: if the process of language is as slippery and ambiguous as he suggests, we can never mean precisely what we say and never say precisely what we mean. Meaning is always in some sense an approximation, a near-miss, a part-failure, mixing non-sense and non-communication into sense and dialogue.
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meaning
freudian-slips
parapraxis
lacan
discourse
unconscious
psychoanalysis
language
consciousness
failure
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Terry Eagleton |
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b08897b
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In psychoanalytical theory there is a phenomenon called transference. The therapist becomes a blank screen, onto which the patient projects some incident or feeling that began in childhood... it would not be a far reach for someone to look at my feelings for Jess and assume that, in the context of our relationship as tutor and pupil, I am not in love. I'm just in transference.
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transference
psychoanalysis
therapist
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Jodi Picoult |
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6c3e9b7
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We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become
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personality
psychoanalysis
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James Baldwin |
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dffe9d1
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Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.
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psychoanalysis
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Alison Bechdel |
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48ee5a4
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A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like psychoanalysis, it can be dangerous; and it will change you.
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literature
psychoanalysis
journey
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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bcc4ef0
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You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left and right. You have to protest constantly just to set the record straight. Finally he makes offensive assumptions and throws them in your face. A stranger in a bar could do the same...
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psychoanalysis
psychology
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Sarah Schulman |
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76d55b9
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Se ena sumpan opou oloi anazetame to alethino prosopo kato apo to prosopeio, o kaluteros tropos na paraplanesoume einai na phoresoume to prosopeio tes idias tes aletheias
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psychoanalysis
psychology
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Slavoj Žižek |
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f0e4e7b
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The rub is that any work of nonsense abounds with so many inviting symbols that you can start with any assumption you please about the author and easily build up an impressive case for it. Consider, for example, the scene in which Alice seizes the end of the White King's pencil and begins scribbling for him. In five minutes one can invent six different interpretations.
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psychoanalysis
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Martin Gardner |
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8367a9d
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"I dreamt that I took William Burrough's penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting...In the next part J.G. Ballard swam through streets of female urine. The girls read his book Crash and then mowed him down with their Volkswagen, crushing his chest slowly against a brick wall. As he screamed in agony larger than representation can accommodate, they referred to his text and had orgasms. Later, they jumped up and down yelling, 'You're not a hero. You're not a hero. You're not. You're not. You're not.' " "How do you analyze that part of the dream, Anna?" ..."I guess I'm nervous about my birthday." --
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j-g-ballard
william-burroughs
dreams
psychoanalysis
sexism
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Sarah Schulman |
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e5fdb30
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Reality is for those who cannot face their dream.
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reality
symptom
psychoanalysis
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Slavoj Žižek |
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2a89486
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"Here's the second joke: Two psychiatrists meet on the street and say hello. "How are you?" asks one. "Eh, not so good," says the other. "I had a stupid misunderstanding, a slip of the tongue. I was visiting my mother out at the old folks' home. We were having lunch and I asked her to pass me the salt, but instead I said, 'You fucking bitch you ruined my life."
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psychoanalysis
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David Rakoff |
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a494599
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"I dreamt that I took William Burrough's penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting...In the next part J.G. Ballard swam through streets of female urine. The girls read his book Crash and then mowed him down with their Volkswagen, crushing his chest slowly against a brick wall. As he screamed in agony larger than representation can accommodate, they referred to his text and had orgasms. Later, they jumped up and down yelling, 'You're not a hero. You're not a hero. You're not. You're not. You're not.' " "How do you analyze that part of the dream, Anna?" ..."I guess I'm nervous about my birthday."
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j-g-ballard
william-burroughs
dreams
psychoanalysis
sexism
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Sarah Schulman |
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45e6123
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[...] dat er een basisindeling is in de wegen van de mens: zij die gemoedsrust en geluk verlangen moeten geloven en het geloof omarmen, terwijl zij die de waarheid willen zoeken van gemoedsrust moeten afzien en hun leven moeten wijden aan onderzoek. [...] U moet kiezen tussen vertroosting en werkelijk onderzoek! Als u de wetenschap kiest, als u verkiest bevrijd te worden uit de ketenen van het bovennatuurlijke, als u, zoals u beweert, verkiest het geloof te mijden en de goddeloosheid te omarmen, dan kunt u niet in een adem door hunkeren naar de kleine vertroostingen van de gelovige! Als u God doodt, moet u ook de beschutting van de tempel verlaten. (p. 193)
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psychoanalysis
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Irvin D. Yalom |
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e0dcfe4
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It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis.
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victorian-age
psychoanalysis
victorian-era
victorian
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Bill Bryson |
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ce9ff00
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?Sabe lo que es saber que, cuando muera, pueden pasar dias o semanas sin que se descubra mi cuerpo, antes de que el olor fetido atraiga a algun extrano? Intento consolarme. A veces, cuando me siento mas solo, hablo conmigo mismo.No demasiado alto, porque temo mi propio eco vacio.
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josef-breuer
lou-salome
psychoanalysis
psychotherapy
nietzsche
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Irvin D. Yalom |