Winnicotian ephemera

student who enjoys psychoanalysis, poetry, coke zero, and libidinal investment into odd hills on which to die

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

I ordered a cappuccino at the diner and received a chai latte instead.
Life is full of joy.

[The Mel Jar and Notorious Lacanian @the_mel_jar]

You gotta be cognizant and careful about the whole BDSM possibilities in clinical work.

You shouldn’t simply select for submissive patients, who get off on their enjoyment of being dominated by you, and your delightful authority and confidence, about what is going on with them.

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

@the_mel_jar Ok but drop the reading citations please!

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

Another gripe of mine is when teachers attempt to "collude" with students to gain favor. Say, trying to teach early Freud and winking how silly it is so the students feel like they're in on the joke. Yuck

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

There's an epidemic of low expectations in psychology doctoral programs. Professors have such low expectations that any student will do the readings and reduce the importance and quality of tests as well, probably because they don't want to be seen as too mean. It's so strange.

[CatBush @FeistyKittyPie]

A huge number of psychoanalysts who made huge contributions to the field were immigrants fleeing the Holocaust. When you cheer on the cruel treatment of immigrants today and call them names, and call the people who oppose it "Cluster B," you're one of those who would have cheered

[Sam Biederman @Biedersam]

Mid-career Leonard Cohen lyric

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

It seems to me that any proper discussion of eating disorders must necessarily include a cultural critique. There's an interaction between the interior dynamic factors of control and hunger and fullness and the societal context which flavors our internal experiences

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

A soldiers song that Kafka overheard and recorded in his diary.

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

@the_mel_jar Baruch dayan haemes. So sorry to hear that.

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

@DBashIdeas Honestly, the main problem I have with this is that Jung is absolutely not the basis for psychology today. At best, he is viewed as someone with ideas that generally lack clinical utility, aside from the few Jungians. I get the speaker is inflating for effect but still annoying

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

She smells like good apples and benefictions

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

They aspire way beyond the limit; They see that they are imprisoned in laws, in circumscribed conditions that do not allow [one] to expand beyond limit to unstoppable heights, and they fall into depression, into resignation, into anger... Their agitation knows no quiet.

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

Rav Kook's neshamos d'tohu and Mitski's Abbey. send tweet.

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

"Souls of chaos (neshamot de-tohu).... are very great; they seek much of existence, that which their vessels cannot support. They seek a very great light; they cannot tolerate whatever is finite, defined and estimable..... Their infinite longing will not end....

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

The purpose is not to become perfect but to become very good at making mistakes

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

The point of psychotherapy is not to get rid of negative emotion, but to make it so that you can have negative emotion. The point is not to get rid of the anxiety, but to be able to have the anxiety, and live well.

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

The one improvement the Conservative siddur makes over the Orthodox one is that it begins with Shir HaShirim.

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

This would make a really lovely srugi kippa for shabbos

[The Last Homely House @AHomelyHouse]

Good morning! A calligraphic cosmos for the opening verses of the Gospel of John.

[Winnicotian ephemera @NomadicSoulful]

@Z047926489558 I remember my father saying similar things, but usually about donating to various local orchestras and music programs