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

London, England
Joined August 2025
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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 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…
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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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Freud teve a ousadia de olhar para comportamentos humanos completamente normais e perguntar: "sim, mas por quê?"
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The "Freudian coverup" myth (the idea that Freud discovered widespread abuse of children, and that his mature theories were attempts to bury that truth) is such perfect slander. It's just a flat out lie, complete bullshit, but it confirms everyone's priors so it doesn't matter.
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Psychoanalysis has all the characteristics of subversion and scandal of the Copernican decentering of the world.
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Self-help books are brain rot. Return to fiction.
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Actually, we can never give anything up; we only exchange one thing for another. — Freud, ‘Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming’
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"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were." -- Marcel Proust
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J.R.R. Tolkien writing about loss
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With @OnNegation aka Ana, back on Twitter, I thought I would share this text on Freud and Schelling! Welcome back to my Favorite Freud Influencer! We all missed you!
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"After all, each of us chooses a love object that can be traced back to our first love." —Paul Verhaeghe
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The symptom grows back like a weed.
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