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How is that we can speak about and share our “indescribable” feelings?
Sometimes we find it difficult to express our feelings. They seem almost impossible to put into words. “I cannot describe it to you, you would need to experience it yourself”. But perhaps we should try harder. To some extent, saying you cannot describe your experience is a cop out. Generally, there are lots of things Continue reading
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Putting Love at the Heart of Psychoanalysis: Suttie’s Critique of Freud
Ian Dishart Suttie was a Scottish psychoanalyst who died in 1935, shortly after completing a powerful critique of Freud, entitled The Origins of Love and Hate. Whereas Freud presents the individual as caught between a hostile external world and a maelstrom of internal excitations, Suttie claims that we are born with a need for love Continue reading
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Do we really know what we are thinking and feeling?
There are few things worse than other people telling us what we think and feel. It is a fundamental attack on our right to express ourselves. It reflects an aggressive narcissism that does not respect boundaries because it does not really accept that other people exist. It is understandable, therefore, that we should want to Continue reading
Wittgenstein and Freud 