التحليل النفسي Psychoanalysis

[image] 1/5 Is Psychoanalysis a Science? Psychoanalysis is probably the psychological theory best known by the public. For example, laypersons are familiar with the term “anal retentive” Yet among psychologists, it remains one of the most contested theories in the history of the

[video] Psychoanalysis isn't about feeling better; it's about becoming free enough to care about what truly matters.

[image] Schizoanalysis doesn’t kill psychoanalysis, it resurrects it. Guattari’s argument in The Machinic Unconscious (1979) is precise: psychoanalysis failed because it became a gigantic industry for normalization, adaptation, and the organized division of the socius, a machine serving

[image] The scholar, historian, and psychoanalyst Elisabeth Roudinesco addressed this problem directly in her book Why Psychoanalysis?, describing the contemporary West as “the Depressive Society” a world in which physicians prescribe drugs to eliminate psychic symptoms without inquiring

[image] 06.05.1856 / 2026 — 170 years On this day, we honor and celebrate Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856, Freiberg, Moravia; September 23, 1939, London, England), the founding father of psychoanalysis, and perhaps the last thinker to have shaken the Western subject to its very core.

[image] In contriving these fantasies, analysands assume implicitly or explicitly that being an analyst is being a finished and fixed product, as though there is an end point to one's becoming an analyst. What they do not recognize and what they neurotically fear is one of the things I

[video] Psychology, psychiatry, and mental health today are in danger of professionals becoming the priests of the industrial system. — Erich Fromm, Interview with Mike Wallace / Mr. Smith, 1960

[image] Does the psychoanalyst have a definition?

[image] لو قرأ الناس كتاب أرسطو، الأخلاق إلى نيقوماخوس، لأفلست صناعة التنمية الذاتية.

[image] For those unfamiliar with Jacques Lacan 1901 – 1981, here is a brief introduction to him: Lacan earned a medical degree in 1932 and was a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Paris for much of his career. He became a candidate member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society

[image] إذا جهل الإنسان موضعه إزاء سبب رغبته اللاشعورية فهو بلا سيادة على نفسه.

[text] يخلو التحليل النفسي البتةَ من مصطلح يُسمى الحب الكاذب يُطلق على الطفل الملتقم لثدي أمه، أما الموجود فعلاً فهو مصطلح وضعه المؤسس للتحليل النفسي سيغموند فرويد ويدعى الحب الاتكائي (anaclitic love) الذي يجعل الثدي نموذجاً أول لاختيار الموضوع، ومصطلح الازدواج الوجداني (ambivalence)

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[image] An unsuspecting visitor to Lacan's house took in a dreamlike, surreal landscape: hills, clouds, a scene complete in itself. Every now and then, though, Lacan would slide the panel aside and show his Courbet.

[text] To read Lacan means to be a polymath.

[image] It feels like I’ve unlocked psychoanalysis’s own Pandora’s box… Article after article came rushing out, all of them tied to the eerie, the creepy, and the mysterious.

[image] In Missing Pieces (1992), Robert Baker and Joe Nickell review the case investigations of the psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor, presented in his book The Haunted Mind (1959–1960), and describe his findings, in their own words, as showing that in most of his cases ghosts are pure

[image] The world itself is nothing but a fantasy that thought uses to sustain its own existence.

[text] L'analyste ne s'autorise que de lui-même... et de quelques autres.

[text] تكمن المفارقةُ في كوننا معتمدين، في آنٍ واحد، على الآخر كضامنٍ لوجودنا، ومنافسين لهذا الآخر عينِه منافسةً ضارية.