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It felt gimmicky, Colston said, but I cant get enough of a pun.
Her mother and stepfather, Lynne Zeavin and Donald Moss, both eminent Manhattan psychoanalysts, were in attendance.
His most fundamental observation is that behavior is governed by unconscious fears and fantasies.
His proposed treatment was as simple as it was radical.
Two people meet in a room.
The patient shares whatever comes into her mind.
The doctor listens and occasionally speaks.
Over time, this conversation can engender a change.
Still, histheories and methods were sometimes flawed.
Zeavin pointed to psychoanalysiss grave errors around conversion therapy, around its transphobia, its ableism, its racism.
By the time Zeavin was born, mainstream culture had turned on Freud.
In 1993,Timepublished a cover asking, Is Freud Dead?
(The name, a Freudian term, refers to an error that reveals an unconscious wish.)
Zeavin and Colston recruited a diverse group of editors and advisers, including Judith Butler and Hortense Spillers.
Oh my God, I hope so, she said.
She ruminated on a passage from one of Freuds last papers, Analysis Terminable and Interminable.
I think about this all the time.
The person for whom there might be hope, for Freud, is the transsexual.
If its true that psychoanalysis is enjoying a resurgence, then why?
Around the room, scholars floated various theories.
Psychoanalysis talks about instability, which we are experiencing, she said.
Why did we do that?
I dont have the answer.
Freud, whatever else can be said about him, cant be accused of trafficking in glib positivity.
Its just too bad out there, and it feels too bad inside, she said.
We dont have all the tools and techniques in the world.
But one thing we have is this.
By 10 p.m., the church was packed and the lights had dimmed.
People sipped $3 beers and swapped insights they would usually share in seminars or with their own analysts.
I think people are really interested in understanding the social mediation of psychic drives!
one person shouted over the blaring trance music.
Another argued that CBT is obviously a capitalist solution for managing the productivity of workers.
Theyre both feeling freaked out, she said.
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