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Dr Ana M

@OnNegation

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist | PhD (dev bio + neuro) | Back on twitter after my hiatus to Freud-fluence some more | Royal Society of Biology | UKCP

 London, England
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Joined August 2025
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Starting to feel overwhelmed by how many messages of support I've had since I came back here 🥲 I'm glad to be back spreading the message that Freud was in fact extremely cool, and that you should never ever write off psychoanalysis as a clinical method
Cool Freud

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My recent posts have been from 'The Electrified Tightrope' by Michael Eigen, edited by Adam Phillips - those of us who practice psychoanalysis will be familiar with the feelings the title evokes
'The Electrified Tightrope' by Michael Eigen and edited by Adam Phillips

ALT 'The Electrified Tightrope' by Michael Eigen and edited by Adam Phillips

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"Many authors following Nietzsche have pointed to a psychopathic vital streak in human life...To paraphrase Tillich, a man is no bigger than the amount of the diabolic in himself he can assimilate. For both Freud and Jung this meant, ideally, an intrapsychic event..."
Many authors following Nietzsche have pointed to a psychopathic vital streak in human life by means of which an individual may break out of collective social existence. In this vision mere goodness is experienced as a stumbling block in the way of the complete man. To paraphrase Tillich, a man is no bigger than the amount of the diabolic in himself he can assimilate. For both Freud and Jung this meant, ideally, an intrapsychic event in which the ego extends its effective horizons and goes beyond itself by meeting and transforming psychic constellations previously alien to it, for example, representatives of the id or shadow.

ALT Many authors following Nietzsche have pointed to a psychopathic vital streak in human life by means of which an individual may break out of collective social existence. In this vision mere goodness is experienced as a stumbling block in the way of the complete man. To paraphrase Tillich, a man is no bigger than the amount of the diabolic in himself he can assimilate. For both Freud and Jung this meant, ideally, an intrapsychic event in which the ego extends its effective horizons and goes beyond itself by meeting and transforming psychic constellations previously alien to it, for example, representatives of the id or shadow.

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"in which the ego extends its effective horizons and goes beyond itself by meeting and transforming psychic constellations previously alien to it, for example, representatives of the id or shadow."
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“The patient does not say that he remembers that he used to be defiant and critical towards his parents’ authority; instead, he behaves in that way to the analyst. He does not remember how he came to a helpless and hopeless deadlock in his infantile sexual researches; but he ...
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"Freud and Winnicott placed creativity at the center of their lives. Sometimes they meant the same thing, sometimes not. It was, after all, Freud who popularized the idea that a baby's movements are connected with creativity."
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"He developed the analogical space in which links between body and meaning run rampant. Winnicott spent most of his career describing how this space feels and charting aspects of the milieu in which such a space is born."
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"Winnicott's transitional experiencing and use of object are ways of describing transformations of the sense of creative aliveness, the area of faith and freedom."
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I have been reading Winnicott for nearly thirty years and Bion half that time and do not find that I am anywhere near exhausting either. What a welcome contrast to many books and articles in the mental health field!
Here the human imagination - psychoanalytic imagination-is alive and well. The horrific is endlessly faced. There are no facile exits. Yet psychic life persists, evolves, survives its annihilation, its extinction.

ALT Here the human imagination - psychoanalytic imagination-is alive and well. The horrific is endlessly faced. There are no facile exits. Yet psychic life persists, evolves, survives its annihilation, its extinction.

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Here the human imagination - psychoanalytic imagination is alive and well. The horrific is endlessly faced. There are no facile exits. Yet psychic life persists, evolves, survives its annihilation, its extinction.
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"'It is difficult to overestimate," Michael Eigen (1986) wrote in his first book 'The Psychotic Core", "the role omniscience plays in deadening one's capacity to experience. If one knows what is going to happen ahead of time, one does not have to experience it"
"It is difficult to overestimate," Michael Eigen (1986) wrote in his first book The Psychotic Core, "the role omniscience plays in deadening one's capacity to experience. If one knows what is going to happen ahead of time, one does not have to experience it

ALT "It is difficult to overestimate," Michael Eigen (1986) wrote in his first book The Psychotic Core, "the role omniscience plays in deadening one's capacity to experience. If one knows what is going to happen ahead of time, one does not have to experience it

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It is the capacity to experience, for the therapist and the patient both, how it can be sustained, and the diverse and subtle ways it can be sabotaged that is the absorbing preoccupation of Michael Eigen's remarkable psychoanalytic essays.
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"Freud tells us... that our operating systems are defined by ambivalence, that we cannot eliminate contradiction but can fashion it into something livable, that we are creative and defensive creatures whose evasions are themselves imaginative acts. hedgehogreview.com/issues/th…
Freud in the Age of Therapy-Speak

Freud in the Age of Therapy-Speak

Casual self-diagnosis flourishes as a consequence of our current obsession with therapeutic infotainment.

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“One can define the end of analysis. The end of analysis is when one has gone round in circles twice: namely, rediscovered that of which one is prisoner. It is not certain that twice is necessary, for it is enough for one to see what one is captive of.” Jacques Lacan, 1978
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Sigmund Freud on repression: "I found confirmation of the fact that the forgotten memories were not lost. They were in the patient's possession and were ready to emerge...there was some force that prevented them from becoming conscious and compelled them to remain unconscious."
Sigmund Freud

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From 'Freud and psychoanalysis' by John Forrester: "Psychoanalysis takes it as a given that the positive transference should be up for discussion, not something the physician rides on the back of. But for psychoanalysis, the most important thing is the negative transference."
'Psychoanalysis takes it as a given that the positive transference should be up for discussion, not something the physician rides on the back of. But for psychoanalysis, the most important thing is the negative transference. In other words, the psychoanalytic process gets interesting when the patient hates or despises the analyst or thinks she is a crook and a charlatan." From 'Freud and psychoanalysis' by John Forrester

ALT 'Psychoanalysis takes it as a given that the positive transference should be up for discussion, not something the physician rides on the back of. But for psychoanalysis, the most important thing is the negative transference. In other words, the psychoanalytic process gets interesting when the patient hates or despises the analyst or thinks she is a crook and a charlatan." From 'Freud and psychoanalysis' by John Forrester

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"In other words, the psychoanalytic process gets interesting when the patient hates or despises the analyst or thinks she is a crook and a charlatan."
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Freud teve a ousadia de olhar para comportamentos humanos completamente normais e perguntar: "sim, mas por quê?"
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"If the psychoanalyst thinks he knows something, in psychology for example, then that is already the beginning of his loss, for the simple reason that in psychology nobody knows much, except that psychology is itself an error of perspective on the human being." Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan

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Happy Freud Day to those who know 🥳✨
Happy 170th birthday to Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis

ALT Happy 170th birthday to Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis

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This is one of the best papers I have read in a while and Lacan really sums up my feelings towards psychology, and how psychoanalysis is a *different discipline to psychology*. "According to Lacan, psychology has nothing to do with science"
Lacan and Althusser on psychology: The political ethos of serving ideals and justifying ideology

ALT Lacan and Althusser on psychology: The political ethos of serving ideals and justifying ideology

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"While psychoanalysis, is or least pretends to be a science of the subject, psychology is an objective pseudoscience of an object put in place of a subject. This subject disappears in psychology... Psychology involves annihilation of the subject"
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