psychoanalytic psychotherapist, phd religious studies
Joined January 2021
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"In adjusting to the mad whole the cured patient becomes really sick—which is not to imply that the uncured are any healthier." Adorno
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the people yearn for grad school
a “gym for your mind” will be the next breakout product / movement
everyone reaches this conclusion after their ai honeymoon phase. yes you got the result you wanted—work done, app built, revenues up—but not the *feeling* of doing great work aka mastery
idk what shape this takes: 3blue1brown-as-a-service? write for 30 min every morning? do we all take up knitting?
but something has to change!
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A secret about academics is they don't really read books. They read parts, pretend they read it all. Historians excel at this. I'm compelled to complete them, even if it's not useful. Yet, I feel shame when I don't read an entire book. Dumb. Read what's useful is a good motto.
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It’s tough to sit with but thus far the ugliest shit I’ve seen in this field isn’t from patients—and I’ve worked with some tough populations—it’s from other psychotherapists. Not sure if it’s the higher expectations I have of us, or just the reverb from what happens to us when we
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The aim of mourning is not to erase the lost object.
It is to allow the person to carry the dead, the lost, or the unlived, without being organised entirely around them.
That is the difference between remembering and being psychologically haunted.
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A lot of people say ontological when they probably mean ontic, and a lot of people say epistemological when they probably mean epistemic. Makes you think.
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“The unconscious is a thing that doesn’t exist. It insists. But it doesn’t exist.”
Francesc Tosquelles
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I open this damn app and look at my timeline, and I feel my IQ dropping and my blood boiling, and yet I keep opening it again every day like some masochistic freak.
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Actually instead of telling people to exercise, just tell them to become charitable, start volunteering. Or tell them to have a better romantic relationship and improve their education. Just tell them what they need to do. They probably haven’t heard this yet. Maybe a haircut.
