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[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

“One of the aims of psychoanalytic treatment may be to enable the patient to find, or to be able to tolerate, more satisfying obstacles to contend with. Poor obstacles impoverish us.”
Adam Philips On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored
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[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

— Simone Weil

[Dr Ali Cliffe @cliffe_ali]

“To give someone good advice is to show a complete lack of respect for that person’s God-given ability to make mistakes. The only other possible reason for asking other people’s advice is to know - when we subsequently do exactly the contrary of what they told us to do - that we

[JP @PoetryofAfter]

Hedda Bolgar: “Being a psychotherapist is an endless becoming. It is not doing something but a rather going on being…”

[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

(superego’s) “outlines become clear only when it confronts the ego with hostility or at least with criticism. The superego, like the id, becomes perceptible in the state which it produces within the ego: for instance, when its criticism evokes a sense of guilt.”

Anna Freud

[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

Anna Freud disagreed with the view of object constancy as the child’s capacity to keep an inner image of an object in the absence of an object in the external world. She conceptualised it as child’s capacity to”keep up object cathexis irrespective of frustration or satisfaction”

[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love. That is why geometrically speaking the circle is a one. Everything comes to you from the other. You have to be able to reach the other. If not you are alone…
Louise Bourgeois
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[IPA @IPAonline]

“In the end the hours were too precious for me to have shared them with anyone but you.”
Freud, in a letter to his fiancee Martha Bernays, 29 January 1884

Martha Bernays, born this day, 26 July 1861

#Freud #MarthaBernays #history #psychology #psychoanalysis

[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

The mutually exclusive opposition was established by A&T between introjection and incorporation. Two mechanisms that embody, on the one hand, a harmonious progress of life, on the other, its traumas, obstacles, near deaths
From The Shell and The Kernel
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[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

Abracham & Torok’s conception of psychoanalysis is based on vicissitudes of introjection. It is the idea that psyche is in a constant process of acquisition, involving the active expansion of our potential to open onto our own emerging desires and feelings as well as the external

[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

There is no systemic account of introjection in A&T’s work. The definition of introjection as the constantly renewed process of self-creating-self is left to the readers. For them introjection presents the very substance of psychic life and the ultimate result of psychotherapy

[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

Most of the misconceptions about the psychoanalytic concepts come from the constantly tempting confusion between the subjective (introspective) or objective (for example neurological) plane, and the anasemic plane.
M. Torok & N. Abracham in The Shell and the Kernel

[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

(…) we could speak of a pleasure experienced as such that would nevertheless not be designated as Pleasure (…) of a pain that would be Pleasure and even of a Pleasure that would be suffering.

[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

Therapeutic power of free association lies (…) between, on the one hand. narration (…) as definitely phallic, on the other, primary processes such as displacement and condensation.
J. Kristeva in: From Symbols to Flesh: Polymorphous Destiny of Narration
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[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

When the starry sky, a vista of open seas or a stained glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses,there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away…
From Portable Kristeva

[Lacan Circle Of Australia @lacancircle]

imaginarily relived – which is what a screen memory is – is always suspect. An image always blocks the truth.”

Jacques Lacan, Yale, 1975
Image by Trent Parke, 1980

[Lacan Circle Of Australia @lacancircle]

to a point where you’re all right for the rest of your life.”

Patti Smith interviewed in her home in 2013

[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

Petition: Enact legislation to make 'psychologist' a protected title https://t.co/O2A6zdcVqF

[Anna S. @KnottyThou]

Intriguing

[Karen Dougherty @KarenBDougherty]

Another psychoanalytic game experience coming...interested to check it out. https://t.co/meZyUzdxZL

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

I am looking for help with my research into using quotations in therapy. Thanks to all who replied previously.
If you would like to contribute to my research for a book & you use quotations in therapy, please reply below or email [email protected] for a questionnaire.