Lives of the Unconscious

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...they feel very small and humiliated.
What is the function of the boss’ defense? And why is it called an early defense mechanism in psychoanalysis? More on this episode.

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Episode 16: Denial, Splitting, Projection – The early defense mechanisms

The division head of a company has called an important meeting. All employees are present at the agreed upon time, except for the boss. Only once an employee calls him...

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...does he remember the meeting and arrives significantly late. He apologizes cursorily and begins the meeting. In the next few minutes, in front of the assembled team, he criticizes specific employees unusually harshly for their work performance and for their failures until...

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@thehorsestruth thank you ❤️

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Link to the episode: https://t.co/JZu5k2PNVr

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A woman with "daddy issues"? A grown man who still lives with his mother? Helicopter parenting? Or a mother and her grown daughter who have a very conflict-ridden relationship, quarreling and hurling all kinds of things at each other—and yet cannot let go?
What would Freud say?

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And contemporary psychoanalysts: would they agree?
This podcast episode is about contemporary perspectives on the Oedipus complex and the complicated relationships of love between the generations.

#psychoanalysis

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moments in which inner emptiness and dissolution are felt. [7/7]

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#𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐩𝐬𝐲��𝐡𝐨𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞

Perhaps the most devastating effect of early childhood attachment trauma is the absent or fragile experience of continuity...[1/6]

Link to the episode: https://t.co/PHJE2MbG6u
#psychoanalysis

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early attachment experiences that were devastating or traumatic.
Characteristic symptoms, as is common for instance with so-called “cutting” or “black-and-white thinking”, thus represent organizational attempts—once again stabilizing and maintaining fragile self-states at...[6/7]

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This podcast discussion of my book on consciousness goes far deeper than most: https://t.co/sKE7DGBzYA
I suggest that one starts about 15 minutes in, as the preliminaries are quite protracted.

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Another podcast discussion of my book on consciousness, this one for The Circle of Insight with Dr Carlos: https://t.co/JbKp4ZC76w

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Episode 12
The architecture of personality. Structural disorders.

"But what in the realm of the psychological are the walls, the roof, the house of the psychic structure?"

#Psychoanalysis

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...front of our partners. But there are people who find it difficult to ever take off this mask, who may not even know what their face would look like underneath.

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“How one becomes what one is.” – On the False Self

Our new podcast episode on the concept of the false self is online.
We all wear masks from time to time: at work, in front of our friends, sometimes even—or perhaps especially—within our family and in...
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