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Ben

@misrecognitions

psychoanalytic psychotherapist, phd religious studies

Joined January 2021
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Another fav: “what is called intellectual is usually just something that demands the work and effort of listening, the force of attention and memory, actually love: in other words, emotion.” Adorno
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Men if you put a 32 belt around your 30x30 jeans you will be unstoppable in the Trader Joe's frozen foods aisle
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Ethiopian jazz will save your ass from listening to pop punk in your late 30s
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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
Image from Dialectical Zach-Zack Loeffler (@thezachloeffler)
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the road to hell is paved with healthy, mature object relations
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“Subjectivity produces reality.” Guattari
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inside you there are two wolves. this is how Freud reacts to them...
Image from James Jouissance (@JamesJouissance)
Image from James Jouissance (@JamesJouissance)
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This win is dedicated to the brave fighters of Cape Verde
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“odyssey this” “odyssey that” u odyssey a therapist
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Acceptance of Castration Therapy (ACT)
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the people yearn for grad school
Oscar Hong (@oscrhong) profile pictureOscar Hong
@oscrhongJul 15
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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if you mistake symptoms for the problem you will also mistake symptom management for the solution
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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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20 yards of linen = 1 coat
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"You are committing the error of confusing sexuality with reproduction" Freud (1917)
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Encyclical Against the Machine
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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
Image from Samuel Baudinette (@SamBaudinette)
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