Joanna
Carl Remick wrote:
>> From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>>
>> Joanna wrote:
>>
>>> psychoanalysis is more about making people conscious of the
>>> multitutde of ways they avoid being in the present. Most of these
>>> strategies, of course, have to do with relating to the present as if
>>> it were nothing other than a symbolic sediment of the past.
>>
>>
>> "Making people conscious of the multitude of ways they avoid being in
>> the present" probably is a decent summary of psychoanalysis, but,
>> then, psychoanalysis misses the most potent source of anxiety under
>> capitalism: future.
>
>
> Exactly. As I've said many times, a system that -- by its own frequent
> admisssion -- is driven solely by fear and greed is guaranteed to
> potentiate anyone's neuroses and bring out the worst in everyone.
> Piddling around with individual approaches -- i.e., sessions on the
> analyst's couch -- to this collective problem is ultimately a waste of
> time. This country doesn't need better psychiatric benefits as much as
> it needs socialism.
>
> Carl
>
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