Psychoanalytic Inquiry

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@yantomr4 According to Pinker music is “auditory cheesecake” ie non-essential for survival. He’s an academic chud.

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@grantmaxwell “Abstract vitality” is a pretty funky construction.

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@JoyceCarolOates Yes—his short story, “Helping” is a marvel.

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@darrenhabermft @IsakdeVrie82235 @NewBooksNetwork 👏

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"Phenomenology and psychoanalysis are not parallel; much better, they are both aiming toward the same latency."--Merleau-Ponty, 1964.

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Frieda Fromm-Reichmann famously argued that “patients may have greater personal assets than their doctors.” What if she had treated memoirs of madness as more than – as one patient activist puts it, “the sauce in someone else’s sandwich"?
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"Psycho-analytic treatment is a kind of after-education."--Freud, 1916-1917, 16:451.

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“In every consulting room there ought to be two rather frightened people; the patient and the psychoanalyst. If they are not, one wonders what they are doing there!” (BIon, 1974, p. 13)

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“If we are successful [as analysts] we enable our patients to abandon invulnerability and become a sufferer.”—Winnicott, 1989, p. 199

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@TheCinesthetic Click.

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"Reading fiction feels radically private because so often we seem to be stealing the failed privacies of fictional characters."--James Wood.

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@paranoiacs 👏

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@DoviPfeiffer @PAHoyeck 👍

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@AlainRubens2 Language matters—but as one layer among others, not as the structure that determines everything. The pre-verbal (embodied, intersubjective)—these aren't only precursors to language but ongoing dimensions of experience that language can never fully capture.

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"Does psychoanalysis render man intelligible? Does it allow us to dispense with philosophy? On the contrary, it poses more vigorously than ever a question that cannot be resolved without philosophy: how can man be at once, completely spirit & completely body?"--Merleau Ponty 1992

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@SimonSimplicio hylomorphism is cool tho.

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“There has been a deplorable tendency for the experimentalist to despise the clinician’s lack of precision and the clinician to reciprocate with contempt for the experimentalist’s lack of insight into human nature.”—Bowlby, 1951

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Wittgenstein:

“Understanding a sentence in language is much more akin to understanding a theme in music than one may think.”

Quignard:

“Beyond what is semantic resides the body of language: this is the definition of music.”