Freudian Slippers

Clinical Psychologist interested in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

[Seyi Lasisi @SeyiVortex]

"Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention."

https://t.co/4L7iGLtHdW

[Steven Erlanger @StevenErlanger]

Elizabeth Strout’s Latest Feels Like a Fresh Start. A fine thoughtful review of another moving Strout novel about the epics of everyday life. https://t.co/4bt2BBYZ4A

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Felice Casorati. Girls at Nervi (1926).

[Late Model Toyota Previa @LMToyotaPrevia]

“The effects of his [Moustafa Safouan] silences were equally powerful, at times even more so. At the end of my admitting something shameful or having just related a particularly painful memory, his silence could stun me, as if I'd been struck with a blunt object. In that silence my own words would come back to me as if someone else had uttered them. It's the most basic tenet of Lacan's teaching. Regardless of our intentions, we almost always say something more than we mean to.” (p. 42)

—Richard Boothby, Blown Away: Refinding Life After My Son's Suicide (2022)

[Kemtrup @KemtrupTweets]

Have been reflecting a lot on antipsychiatry, anti-medicine (eg anti-vax), anti-introspection (eg Andreesen, but also Shrier), anti-therapy, anti-involved parenting, pro-AI “therapy,” and “psychosomatics are never a factor in any cases” movements.

They all share a sort of

[Freudian Slippers @FreudianSliders]

If you want to get really under the skin of Welsh-language working-class culture, you’ve got to go to the north. That’s where the kids fuck and fight in Welsh...

https://t.co/OXiTkM1cPc

[Richard Gipps @DrGipps]

"I don't feel safe". What makes this so obnoxious? (When it is, I mean; obvs!) Because it dresses up "I get anxious when you're righteously angry at me" in the clothes of "I've reasonable grounds to think you'll wound me", so is covert blame-shifting and victim-playing.

[Nathan Beacom @Zheschool]

Ted Chiang is right; chatbots are manipulative and harmful as a technology. Remove the personal pronouns, remove the cute, cloying, conversational tone. A good product would just provide the results with links and citations to point you toward primary sources.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

This is great.

[Samuel Baudinette @SamBaudinette]

Here’s the preface to Maud Mannoni’s “The Child, his ‘Illness,’ and the Others.”

[Kemtrup @KemtrupTweets]

I have a lot to say about POSSIBLE psychosomatic symptoms but here is the most important thing:

Individual clinicians MUST take the patient and the symptoms seriously. BOTH must FEEL and explore the possibility that the symptoms aren’t or aren’t entirely psychosomatic AND the 1/

[Freudian Slippers @FreudianSliders]

@Tyler_A_Harper This is wonderful, Tyler. Thank you.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

I wrote about the Pope and why Christian tech critics often have a more compelling response to the AI crisis than their secular counterparts. Simply, Christian writers aren't afraid of "human nature" talk, and they understand THE question of the AI Age is: what are people for? 🧵

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

“Shitfulness is like mindfulness, only shitty”

- zine by Rin Flumberdank (reproduced in Asylum magazine)

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Preston @pressand_turn]

“Developmental stages are not superseded, they are incorporated.”

— Adam Phillips, taken from https://t.co/wZbP17WTnL

[Lili Owen Rowlands @LiliOwRo]

My long piece for the LRB about Agnès Varda https://t.co/vQDLH7TbrE

[Late Model Toyota Previa @LMToyotaPrevia]

“This is what I would usually do in the preliminary sessions, which is also very much an intervention that is there to establish transference. To establish a certain belief that investing in speech, investing in a certain way of exploring my own story will engender a certain change in me. It's establishing the subject-supposed-to-know, which is not saying to people, I'm the wise man, and I know how your problem is organized, but rather that they obtain words via me as an analyst, and they start believing that in their own story, there is a certain organization And maybe they believe that I'm more in touch with the latent organization of their story than they are, but at the same time it should be clear for them that it is in their own stories, that it is by them exploring their owi speech, that steps can be made. How can we have this cffect? It's often b pointing to very; very specific points in what they have been saying to us in the previous sessions, in very sensitive topics that they've been talking abour, and inviting them to explore these points in greater detail.” (p. 92)

Vanheule, S. (2026). An interview with Stijn Vanheule, PhD following his talk: “The clinic of psychoanalysis in times of capitalism”. Middle Voices, 3 (2).

[Freudian Slippers @FreudianSliders]

@LMToyotaPrevia What a fantastic paper - thanks for sharing! He seems like a wonderful analyst and supervisor, very undogmatic. I too now want a Vanheule clinical book!

[The Mel Jar @the_mel_jar]

The subject is UNIQUE!

The subject’s symptoms, history, challenges, and accomplishments are THEIR OWN!

Analysis is not concerned with the collective.

Analysis is concerned with the INDIVIDUAL.