Black Metal Schopenhauer

Psychoanalysis, cats, psychotherapy, cats, philosophy, cats, music, cats, and so on. Psych student.

[Black Metal Schopenhauer @BMSchopenhauer]

"Thomas Mann said that psychoanalytic concepts were Schopenhauer's ideas 'translated from metaphysics into psychology.' F. W. Foerster went so far as to say that no one should deal with psychoanalysis before having thoroughly studied Schopenhauer."

- H. F. Ellenberger

[CatBush @FeistyKittyPie]

@the_mel_jar @PoetryofAfter @j_cshrink @IHearSimon We need an existentialist revival.

[Black Metal Schopenhauer @BMSchopenhauer]

@PoetryofAfter @IHearSimon @FieryKittyPie Here’s the full article: https://t.co/dnnezD7epZ

[Black Metal Schopenhauer @BMSchopenhauer]

@FieryKittyPie Thanks for sharing! Discussed Winnicott’s “Hate in the Countertransference” in class a few weeks ago, and the professor kept stressing the importance of acknowledging hate, aggression, and so on. This thread brought it all right back!

[Black Metal Schopenhauer @BMSchopenhauer]

@the_mel_jar I'm sorry, Mel. The temptation was just too great.

[Black Metal Schopenhauer @BMSchopenhauer]

@the_mel_jar

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

In his lifetime, Freud actively campaigned for women’s rights, gay rights & legal contraception (then illegal)

Sorry haters, he’s just not who you keep painting him to be

His writings on these issues are now translated into English by Mark Solms in the revised standard edition

[Black Metal Schopenhauer @BMSchopenhauer]

@the_mel_jar

[The Mel Jar @the_mel_jar]

Currently, I must confess that I have very little use for the vast majority of psychology social media lectures on the subject of psychopathology anymore, no matter how soberly they’re delivered, or confidently, or authoritatively, or dispassionately.

[Black Metal Schopenhauer @BMSchopenhauer]

@WholesomeBrain @jefffinethomas Nope, there are no requirements for me except for having a license. Personal analysis and supervision are "encouraged" but it's ultimately up to each practitioner, which is kind of... worrying.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

AI “therapy” promoters assume 24/7 availability is good

Maybe good—if goal is to help patients relate to machines, and bolster fantasy that instant gratification is always available

Maybe not good—if goal is to have relationships with humans and function in the world of humans

[Black Metal Schopenhauer @BMSchopenhauer]

@DoctorPerin @luncheoninfur

[Black Metal Schopenhauer @BMSchopenhauer]

@_psychiara @PsychZorro @JonathanShedler

[The Mel Jar @the_mel_jar]

@Elroy_Muscato @JonathanShedler Freud = bad. Pharma = bad. Psychiatry = bad. Mom and Dad = bad. Society = bad. Why? Because they’re the bad other. We come into the world as pure goodness, and so all our suffering must be a result of deliberate badness happening from the bad other. Complexity not allowed.

[Black Metal Schopenhauer @BMSchopenhauer]

@the_mel_jar Had to take the MMPI-2 test a few weeks ago. One of the statements reads "I know who is responsible for most of my troubles."

My first thought was "yes, it's me."

[Lacan Circle Of Australia @lacancircle]

Fine writers do psychoanalysis

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot, 1869

[Black Metal Schopenhauer @BMSchopenhauer]

@lacancircle I've been living a lie for the past 20 years, apparently.

Had to look for the quote and couldn't find it in the Genealogy. Turns out it's from aphorism 217 of Beyond Good and Evil.

[Black Metal Schopenhauer @BMSchopenhauer]

@reeesh24 I think the problem has always been that "sexual" is often reduced to "genital" in people's minds, when that is not at all what Freud was saying.

The solution, I suppose, would be to actually *read* Freud and understand him. A "return to Freud", if you will.

[Kemtrup @KemtrupTweets]

This is an interesting article that makes important points, but I think it exemplifies an error that left-leaning critics of psychiatry make.

Here for ex, the author argues we need to focus on

“non-police crisis response systems…. fully funding and

https://t.co/1vUydtRV2e