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Dans le cas de Martin Ceccaldi il apparaît opportun de convoquer une dimension historique et sociale, mettant moins l'accent sur les caractéristiques personnelles de l'individu que sur l'évolution de la société dont il constitue un élément symptomatique.
Michel Houellebecq • Les particules élémentaires (French Edition)
Impitoyable école d'égoïsme, la psychanalyse s'attaque avec le plus grand cynisme à de braves filles un peu paumées pour les transformer en d'ignobles pétasses, d'un égocentrisme délirant, qui ne peuvent plus susciter qu'un légitime dégoût. Il ne faut accorder aucune confiance, en aucun cas, à une femme passée entre les mains des psychanalystes. Me
... See moreMichel Houellebecq • Extension du domaine de la lutte (French Edition)
Specifically, Freud helps Cavell to interpret the attempt to secure the certainty and reason of philosophy as pathological mother-denial, a refusal of our humanity.
Natalie Carnes • Image and Presence: A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia (Encountering Traditions)
this can be viewed as a defining feature of Freud's modernity: his total engagement with compound meanings and contradictions; his continuous excavation of mental life, all the way down to its primal substances. We do not think logically like characters in a novel. The mind is messy and loose chains of association unravel in unexpected directions.
Frank Tallis • Mortal Secrets
“La situazione ricordava l’immagine che propone Kafka del suicida: il prigioniero che, vedendo rizzare un patibolo in cortile, crede che sia destinato a lui e durante la notte evade dalla cella, scende nella corte e s’impicca da solo (Kafka, 1948/1962). Kafka, che si fa prima processare per un delitto che non ha commesso, poi, una volta finito in c
... See moreJung once observed that each therapist must ask the question: What task is this person's neurosis helping him or her avoid?
James Hollis • Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives
The double shift in thinking brought about by Christianity persists today and has now become part of our identity. First, we have come to perceive ethics and morality as outside ourselves, and as in conflict with our ‘natural’ impulses — meaning, of course, that natural impulses are bad. Second, we are convinced that we are accountable to a higher
... See morePaul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
As an aid in this effort, use is made of a working hypothesis. Starting out from the fact that the frustrated1 predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculi
... See moreEric Hoffer • The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)
spricht man heute auch von einer Sozialen Angststörung.