HeyJaredWhat Would Freud Say?
Reflections of a psychoanalyst-in-training who is also a writer, tarot reader, and astrologer.
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The Pecking Order: Defending Against Empathy (opens the original)
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I’m not sure how to begin talking about these topics so I’ll just begin, ever so gingerly, gently. I want to talk about… group dynamics, bullying, and drive theory. I want to talk about what is approved of, condoned, and why. I want to talk about trauma and dissociation. I want to talk about defending against empathy and vulnerability. Sounds mushy, I think. Not clear. And that’s how it’s gonna be for a bit. So I’m circling here as I figure out my way in. And some of it will take place in public
A Little About Laplanche & Resistance (opens the original)
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Didn’t get enough sleep last night. Had a late class, late trains, and my shoulders were aching from carrying a heavy bag with a heavy notebook in it. On the class menu last night was a little Laplanche on the topic of resistance. I’m quoting from the book The Language of Psycho-Analysis by Laplanche and Pontalis.”In psychoanalytic treatment, the name ‘resistance’ is given to everything in the words and actions of the analysand that obstructs his gaining access to his unconscious.””The concept o
Psychoanalysis & Magic? Yes, To Both (opens the original)
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I know some folks might unsubscribe when they see this astrology post, but I’ve been a professional astrologer since 2011! And I’m working on integrating my many lives which will take many lives! So here is the latest from MoonPluto Astrology:*Endless Retrogrades This Fall? *This post was written without the assistance of you know what*Listen, I don't know even know if it's worth it to keep blogging here (meaning, will anyone find it) although my blog has been around FOREVER, and I've taken brea
All the Selves You Were + Advice for the Writers (opens the original)
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It was too personal, my previous post, so I took it down. Maybe it’ll resurface. We shall see!In the meantime let us return to The Obsessives, which may or may not refer to us all. I’m reading Essential Papers on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and started with the paper by Leonard Salzman. He writes about the obsessive’s need for guarantees and certainty. That irritable reaching after fact and reason, eh? Somebody get Keats on the line!“The ultimate goal in therapy is to effect a change in the pa
Displaced Creativity? The Group as Family (opens the original)
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I quote for you now a sentence from a paper by Glen Gabbard from 2001 called Psychoanalytically-Informed Approaches to the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. It’s from the journal Psychoanalytic Inquiry.Although I was looking for psychoanalytic approaches to obsessions or OCD, what struck me about this paper was this part about groups:I shared with the nurse the time-honored view of the psychoanalytic hospital as a place where a patient recreates his family situation (more precisely, hi
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