Questions tagged [psychoanalysis]
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How do we know we are all not 'crazy'? Is number and context the only thing that defines our indication/sense of 'normalcy'?
I stumble upon this question after reading this Wikipedia article, which I find very intriguing: The laughter epidemic began on days averaging around 7 days.
After reading that article I went through ...
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Does chat-gpt have an unconscious? [closed]
Does chat-gpt have an unconscious? Do you need qualia (which I feel chat-gpt lacks, though in reality I don't know what it is, rather than what it outputs) to have an unconscious, or just the capacity ...
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Can a self defeating pro attitude make for a meaningful life?
Can a self defeating pro attitude make for a meaningful life?
I was thinking of "pro attitude" in the sense of when e.g. one "does what one believes to be really important" or one &...
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Understanding Freud
I have recently started studying Freud and have so far managed to read part of his Studies on Hysteria, as well as The Neuro-Psychoses of Defense. In reading his Interpretation of Dreams, I have had ...
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Does Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis drives toward irrationalism and low self-control?
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According to Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis:
Human behavior is partly driven by the subconscious. The subconscious is a kind of psychological black box, inaccessible directly by the ...
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What does Lacan mean by signifiers presenting a subject for another signifier?
I was reading an article on Lacan's Signifier concept posted on nosubject.com. I am very confused by this one sentence:
Lacan defines a signifier as
"that which represents a subject for another ...
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Freud and (German) idealism
The French wikipedia article on German romanticism mentions a very strong tie between Freud psychoanalysis and German romanticism.
German romantism is also said to have strong link with German ...
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Subjectivity and ethics surrounding mental illness diagnoses
I learnt the term 'anosognosia'; a 'lack of insight' into one's mental disorder. People who apparently 'suffer' from anosognosia are oblivious to the fact that they have a mental disorder, anosognosia ...
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Question about Sartre's distinction between "self-consciousness", "subject", and "ego"
I am reading the Routledge Critical Thinkers series on Jacques Lacan, and I have come across this passage about Jean-Paul Sartre:
In an early work entitled Transcendence of the Ego (1934) Sartre
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How can one reconcile individual and social interests?
The conflict between the interests of an individual and those of a group/society plays on many levels:
Economic relations It can be framed as a conflict between liberalism/individualism and socialism....
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Is Psychoanalysis a Type of Phenomenology?
Psychoanalysis—be it Freudian, Jungian or Lacanian—is concerned with how reality is experienced by the subject as affected by his/her unconscious wishes, desires, sometimes even by archetypal myths, ...
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How do Rational Egoists Respond to Psychology?
Rational egoism is the position that humans always act rationally and to further the actor's self-interest. But ever since Carl Jung psychologists have pretty much been in agreement that humans do not ...
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Researchers describe emotions as either “positive” or “negative”. But can emotions be “right” or “wrong”?
Could it be regarded as either right or wrong from being tied to either positive or negative connotations?
See: On “Positive” and “Negative” Emotions by Robert C. Solomon and Lori D. Stone
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the disembodied nature of the spectator
The following text is from the book Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh. Does any one have any information about "the disembodied nature of the spectator"? I have not ever heard of it.
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Freud's tripartite linguistic play
Maria Walsh in her book Art and Psychoanalysis says:
Uncanny sensations are triggered in the present by the creepy
evocation of a past that the subject has repressed, a past that should
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