Sublime

For Freud, the self is – rather than a soul with an eternal nature – a complex amalgam of biological and social impulses, many of them quite ‘Darwinian’ in their primal mechanisms, and the conscious mind is only the surface of the ‘unconscious’, where hidden, largely irrational impulses, repressed desires,

Jung once observed that each therapist must ask the question: What task is this person's neurosis helping him or her avoid?

in at least one of Freud’s envisionings of this, we are by inclination self-satisfying and self-satisfied creatures forced to acknowledge our dependence on others.

Finally, the complex also includes a murderous rage on the part of the child toward the parent of the same sex. The child wants to kill the parent, but is more afraid that he will be killed by the parent. Because of the great fear, the rage is suppressed and comes out only in death wishes against the parent or as fear that the parent will die or be

Breuer and Freud believed that traumatic memories were lost to ordinary consciousness either because “circumstances made a reaction impossible,” or because they started during “severely paralyzing affects, such as fright.”

Isso ocorre porque o ser humano busca reencenar as cenas traumáticas da infância na idade adulta com a esperança de curar as feridas ainda abertas. Para isso, buscamos parceiros que contêm o melhor e o pior dos nossos pais. Porque, no fundo, existe uma esperança mágica de que desta vez será diferente. É um mecanismo que tenta reparar o passado.

J’insistais sur le fait que Freud n’était pas juste le créateur de la psychanalyse, qui représente aujourd’hui moins de 1 % de toutes les thérapies disponibles, mais qu’il a inventé le champ même de la psychothérapie : avant lui, le domaine n’existait pas. Si je critique beaucoup l’analyse orthodoxe freudienne telle qu’elle se pratique aujourd’hui,

Freud10 affirmait que l’esprit était divisé en trois parties: le moi (partie consciente et rationnelle), le surmoi (la conscience, un engagement parfois trop rigide envers les règles de la société) et le ça (le désir de plaisir, dès que possible). Lorsque je donne un cours sur Freud, j’utilise la métaphore de l’esprit vu en tant que cheval qui tire

Freud invites us to wonder what relationships would be like if we dropped the idea that they had anything to do with indebtedness or obligation.