Dr Ana M

Starting to feel overwhelmed by how many messages of support I've had since I came back here 🥲 I'm glad to be back spreading the message that Freud was in fact extremely cool, and that you should never ever write off psychoanalysis as a clinical method

For all the Winnicott fans

It was a beautiful day in London 🏙️🌊

I've been off Twitter for so long I didn't get round to posting these pictures of Adam Phillips and Susie Orbach from a psychoanalytic conference I was at about Interpretations ✨

@abjectofvenus Oh no - you're literally the only account I look forward to seeing on here. I haven't posted in a while either because I cannot stand the aggro. I hope you feel better soon ❤️‍🩹

Lost all my friends too, i’m just completely alone, stuck in my own misery in a mental hospital. All my own fault.

"While psychoanalysis, is or least pretends to be a science of the subject, psychology is an objective pseudoscience of an object put in place of a subject. This subject disappears in psychology... Psychology involves annihilation of the subject"

This is one of the best papers I have read in a while and Lacan really sums up my feelings towards psychology, and how psychoanalysis is a *different discipline to psychology*. "According to Lacan, psychology has nothing to do with science"

The "Freudian coverup" myth (the idea that Freud discovered widespread abuse of children, and that his mature theories were attempts to bury that truth) is such perfect slander. It's just a flat out lie, complete bullshit, but it confirms everyone's priors so it doesn't matter.

Psychoanalysis has all the characteristics of subversion and scandal of the Copernican decentering of the world.

@katherineveritt The fit👌🏼

Conference core

Some of the best texts ever written by Freud listed here by @yantomr4 This is what I'm looking for here - more engaging conversations about Freud and psychoanalysis

@yantomr4 But honestly it's so hard to pick a favourite! 😆

@yantomr4 I completely agree with all of your choices - I love so many of Freud's papers it's too hard to pick favourites!! I'm also a big fan of the RatMan and WolfMan case studies 🐺 I always tell people interested in Freud to start with 'The Interpretation of Dreams'

בלי להתעורר מהחלום ששלושת הספרים הללו מעירים אותך ממנו.

@Psy_Lacanian Really interesting - thanks for sharing - I have posted this on my Instagram stories

Freud had a powerful pen, and his many books and essays changed the way we think about ourselves and others… But his most frequently quoted sentences were not written by his pen, and may never have passed his lips. elms.faculty.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/upl…

I mean I know this is a meme but it's important to remember that to Freud heterosexuality in women required abandonment of the mother as a love object and layer upon layer of self hatred. Being a lesbian, to Freud, was not pathological

Sigmund Freud, 'Studies in Hysteria'

"I have not always been a psychotherapist but was trained, like other neuropathologists, to use local diagnosis and electro-prognosis, and I myself still find it strange that the case histories that I write read like novellas and lack, so to speak, the serious stamp of science."

What I love about Freud, right from "Studies in Hysteria", is that his interest in helping patients was a serious medical and scientific endeavour - and in the process he discovered that what distresses us most is the normal domain of writers and poets - love, longing, desire

"But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told." Shulamith Firestone

@DoctorPerin It's like being given something that they don't have, and I don't want it

What is it like to be loved by an obsessive?