#psychoanalysis

A Case Against the Sky

Evidence of Abandonment

Sigmund Freud and the Unconscious Mind That Controls Us

Before Carl Jung expanded the unconscious into a world of archetypes and symbols, Freud had already made one disturbing discovery: the…

Deimprinting vs. Reimprinting: Eliminating the Cause vs. Modifying the Consequence

NLP and Reimprinting: Correcting the Consequence

Sueños patito

Un archivo de sueños demasiado extraños para quedarse solo en mi cabeza.

A psicanálise com crianças e a significação na fase fálica

O termo “psicanálise com crianças” indica uma diferença de considerações entre esta psicanálise e as outras que não são com crianças. As…

Traços primitivos e civilidade do homem

Geralmente não sou de escrever ao correr da noite. Na verdade, sou adepto da noite como período que se tem como aceitável o ócio…

The Wound of the Double: A Psychoanalytic Analysis of the Fractured Self in “Half Man” (no…

The series Half Man, by choosing a title that suggests incompleteness and cleavage, does not merely describe a physical or social condition…

# Antedating the Mirror Stage: The “Recurrency of Consciousness” and the Carving Out of Temporal…

## Abstract This paper explores the foundational mechanism of the emergence of consciousness, beginning with the dynamic mother-infant…

Мабуть, все якось набагато гірше ніж ми собі думаємо.

Якщо про це в принципі хтось думає.

Arzuya Sadakat

Lacan bize Etik Semineri’nin sonunda farklı biçimlerde “Arzuna sadık kaldın mı?” diye soruyor. Bizi bu soruya getiriyor. “Bir öznenin…

Environ un printemps

Le jour de la première du célèbre ballet d’Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du printemps, un grand scandale éclata…

Why some books doesn’t tell the whole truth.

Reading about a something is not enough to fully understand it.

Demystifying Jung: The Man Who Mapped the Soul

Carl Gustav Jung spent decades mapping territory most of us prefer to ignore — the irrational, the symbolic, the dream-laden underworld…

The Counterfeit Superego: Self-Punishment, the Illusion of Severity, and the Defence of Grandiosity

This essay is a theoretical reflection on shame, conscience, self-punishment, and grandiosity. It is not a diagnostic guide, but an attempt…

Skinner e Freud: dois deterministas

ah o velho erro do behaviorista de meia tigela

The Death of Therapy and the Rise of the Therapeutic Industrial Complex

In 1986–1988 I studied with Philip Rieff who twenty years prior had written the ironically entitled book “The Triumph of the Therapeutic.”…

Psychoanalytic Criticism and Literary Analysis: Why the Unconscious Mind Still Matters

What if literature reveals more about the human mind than psychology textbooks?

The Couch Is a Confessional: Why Psychoanalysis Is Mythology in a Lab Coat

And why that might not be the disaster it sounds like

New Journal Pas Tout

I am now the co-editor of a new journal on psychoanalysis and aesthetics called pas tout. https://pas-tout.com/

Love & War in a Sad Time: Part 2

Note: What follows are slightly edited transcriptions from two seminars led for the European Journal of Psychoanalysis in 2022.

Love & War in a Sad Time: Part 1

Note: What follows are slightly edited transcriptions from two seminars led for the European Journal of Psychoanalysis in 2022.

Reading Freud’s “Libidinal Types” (1931)

Freud proposes that the libido plays an essential part in the general psychical economy of not just patients but indeed everyone. The…

Reading Freud’s “Humour” (1927)

In this short essay, Freud was revisiting his manuscript “Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious” (1905). He reminds the reader that…

Reading Freud’s Address to the Society of B’Nai B’rith

There is something hidden in Sigmund Freud’s address to the Society of the B’nai B’rith. Most commentaries focus on the Jewish elements of…

A Home for the Incurable: Keynote Talk for PsyX Conference

PsyX Conference: Psychology, Intelligence, Society Institute of Professional Psychology Bahria University Karachi, Pakistan

Ode To Limit

Try to run through a brick wall 100 times, and you will violently crash into it 100 times — no matter how much you really want to pass…

Reading Sigmund Freud’s “On the Teaching of Psycho-Analysis in Universities” (1919)

1. Analytic Discourse is Not University Discourse

What would Freud and Jung say about a true crime documentary?

Psychology is a young science. We still quote psychologists from the 19th and 20th centuries (actually, they were psychiatrists, but that’s…

I am an Iranian transgender woman and a psychoanalyst who, due to the incongruence between my legal…

Caught Between Who I Am and Who I Should Be: Id, Ego, and Superego in Turning Red

From Dream to Loss: A Psychoanalytic Reading of La La Land (2016)

A psychoanalytic approach to film analysis considers not only the plot or characters, but also how films effect their viewers…

In Bed with Parents: A Psychoanalytic View on the Crowd in Our Bedroom (Part 1)

Why perfect parents are a myth and how our first frustrations shape adult desire. This material is based on my notes from Otto Kernberg’s…

Yunus Emre Felsefesi ve Lacan Psikanalizi Üzerine

Ele almaya niyetlendiğim mesele, ilk bakışta, birbiriyle pek de ortak yanı bulunmayan iki düşünme tarzını (on üçüncü yüzyıl Anadolu’sunun…

A Lacanian Analysis of “The Graduate”

-Chris Goad

Feminicide as a Cultural Symptom: Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Approaches to Gender-Based…

Feminicide represents not only a criminal act but also a complex socio-cultural and symbolic phenomenon. This article aims to analyze…

On the Existential Scenario of Psychosis, or the True Story of the Count of Monte Cristo

To Lyudmila Pavlovna Rubina, physician and human being.

Birini Sevmek mi, Onu Saklamak mı?

Masumiyet Müzesi’nde Aşkın Psikanalizi

On Not Writing About Irigaray

Why I haven’t written more about Irigaray, and some context for doing so.

The Creative State

The creative state is of a grandiose nature, even of a manic one. In the creative moment we must imagine an audience, a third, and to a…

Soltar un vínculo: cuando el duelo no termina.

Una lectura psicoanalítica sobre el amor que deja huella.

Pulsiunea morții în filmul The Killer

Introducere

نسبت هویت و کنش: دیالکتیک وجود و نقش آفرینی

The Aura Effect

Nobody will ever have an aura like him.” “An unmistakable aura surrounded her.” These sentences provide an entry point into a word that has…

Lacanian Universe

Lacanian Universe

The Active Methodologies Myth: Why ‘Student-Centered’ Fails in the Real Classroom

For years, global education has been captivated by the promise of Active Methodologies. The core idea is compelling: students should be…

The Compass Crisis: Restoring Authority, Affection, and Purpose in 21st-Century Education

Education, in its profoundest sense — the art of leading the human being toward full potential and responsibility — is navigating one of…

Between Home and Knowledge: How Psychoanalysis Reveals the Hidden Power of the Family–School Bond

Our children and students are not blank slates when they walk through the school gates. They carry with them the weight — and the…

The First Dream Where Duration Is Born as ‘Delay’

Exploring Bertolucci’s Histoire d’eaux through psychoanalysis: where time pauses, absence becomes imagination, and imagination unfolds as…

Negation and Sexual Jouissance in Manto’s “Aurat Zaat (Women)”

Find Relief with Individual Anxiety Counselling & PTSD Therapy in Edinburgh

Mental health challenges like anxiety and PTSD can feel isolating, overwhelming, and exhausting. But the good news is — help is available…