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“What universal binomial denominations would be his as entity and nonentity? Assumed by any or known to none. Everyman or Noman.”—Joyce, Ulysses (Ithaca)
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Synesthetic perception is the rule and, if we do not notice it, this is because scientific knowledge displaces experience—Merleau-Ponty, PP, 238
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“Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion cooperate just as they do in practical affairs.”—William James, 1879
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"From years of listening to hate – and sometimes to hate speech – the wisdom of Freud’s preliminary speculations that hate is the forerunner of love is hard to deny."--Jill Gentile
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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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"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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"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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“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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RT @nicoscosc: Wittgenstein:
“Understanding a sentence in language is much more akin to understanding a theme in music than one may think.…
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"May I share a thought I had a few minutes ago?"
I said yes, grateful he would be doing some talking.
He answered: "I'd thought, `Who the fuck cares if you never say another word?"
--Ann-Louise S. Silver, "My Analysis with Harold Searles."
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“Fascist sensibility springs from a mortal fear of orgasms”—Wilhelm Reich. Enjoy your Sunday!
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“Even in the sciences, an outmoded theoretical framework can be reintegrated into the language of the one that replaced it..it remains significant; it keeps its truth.” (Merleau-Ponty, S 10)
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