1/There is actually a fascinating history of this process. Ties to Barry Goldwater and Ralph Ginzburg and the evil lawyer from Oppenheimer. It may as well start with Walter Charles Langer, born in 1899 he traveled to Vienna to study psychoanalysis under Anna Freud for some reason
@KemtrupTweets I would die if I were not on medications. Modern medicine had doubled life expectancy in our country. I agree with you! There's no need to make these false distinctions.
Rousseau → Attachment-oriented therapy: You’re born good and harmed by others.
Hobbes → Klein: You weren’t born so innocent—you have destructive (vs. selfish) impulses that need to be survived and integrated (vs. contained).
@the_mel_jar I look forward to reading it! I have enjoyed your posts on here for the past couple years and it has really given me a lot of think about in psychoanalysis!
Here's the danger of social media. It allows people to publish their internal monologues. Our internal monologues and fantasies are often incredibly ugly. People go to therapists because they feel so guilty about them, and one of the tasks of a therapist is to explain that 1/
“… Winnicott discusses elements of psychoanalysis that we have neglected, that we have allowed to escape our attention. The story of psychoanalysis, from its beginnings to the present day is, in part, the history of movements of people who have suffered persecutions. It is…”