This, I might say
is the big secret
of psychoanalysis

The big secret
is that there is no
Other of the Other.

Jacques Lacan
Seminar VI
Desire

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Sigmund Freud running around the world, circa 1910:

“In the meantime, psychoanalysis continues to run its course. Even a long way from Vienna...”

By Anne Simon

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Peanuts comics do psychoanalysis

Snoopy (the author): “Dear Sweetheart, Why did you leave me? Please come back.”

Charlie Brown: “Suppertime”

Snoopy: “But not right now.”

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Alright let’s get fandom specific: post 4 Ducktales characters you relate to (light psychoanalysis/ribbing from mutuals optional) https://t.co/ECkxY1YPdl

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Alright let’s get fandom specific: post 4 Ducktales characters you relate to (light psychoanalysis/ribbing from mutuals optional)

It was hard figuring out what the 3rd and 4th characters should be https://t.co/Rj7m08QdRq

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Alright let’s get fandom specific: post 4 Ducktales characters you relate to (light psychoanalysis/ribbing from mutuals optional)

🧍 https://t.co/qo37zYkgW1

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Vintage comics do psychoanalysis

“So when's it my turn to ignore you?”

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Fine poets do psychoanalysis:

O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! Can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream, 1849

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Peanuts comics do psychoanalysis:

Lucy Van Pelt, the amateur psychiatrist: “We’re doomed!”

Charlie Brown, the neurotic: “ ... ”

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Charlie Brown does psychoanalysis:

“I wish men cried”

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Fine artists do psychoanalysis:

“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”

Paul Klee, Creative Confession, 1920
Paul Klee, A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast, taken from his 1920 yearbook, Joy: Papers for a New Consciousness

Klee’s diaries and ...

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Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Sándor Ferenczi and Ms Liberty in New York Harbor:

“We are making progress with psychoanalysis, my dear Jung. The Americans don’t yet realise that we’re bringing them the plague.”

SS George Washington steamship liner, 1909

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Sigmund Freud $12 stamp, Uruguay, commemorating 100 years of psychoanalysis

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Eris: this is most like Hysteria or A Form of Mania, Sadly I Can't perform a Psychoanalysis. I highly Suggest seeing a therapist. Unless your Randy Orton in which case their is no cure.

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THE INCREDIBLE FREUD
Tell me about your mother
Psychoanalysis as you like it
Beware of the Junggernaut!

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“Narcissistic identification leaves the subject, in infinite beatitude, more than ever exposed to the obscene and ferocious figure that analysis calls the superego.”

Jacques Lacan, Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

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“Analysis is the experience which has restored to favour in the strongest possible way the productive function of desire as such.”

Jacques Lacan, page 3, Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

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“The hysteric captivates this object in a subtle intrigue and her ego is in the third person by means of whom the subject enjoys the object who incarnates her question.”

Jacques Lacan, The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis

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“Sex and its significations are always capable of making present the presence of death.”

Jacques Lacan, Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

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“Psychoanalysis uses words as an object through which one can find a way to handle the unconscious. The unconscious does not reside in the deepest recesses of one’s soul but in the ‘concrete language that people talk’ (JL). In analysis, the presence of the analyst is ...

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