Imagination is everything in social life. To borrow from Freud: “The realm of imagination was seen to be a ‘reservation’ made during the painful transition from the pleasure principle to the reality principle in order to provide a substitute for instinctual satisfactions which had to be given up in real life. The artist, like the neurotic, … Continue reading Forepleasure
Tag: mental-health
Wish
“All I know is that I do not know.” Perhaps the most memorable quote from Socrates, which in turn explains our state of mind and our overall reality once we arrived at the absurdity of the world scene in the previous piece. But with absurdity consuming all else, including our social reality, all we are … Continue reading Wish
Suggestion
Love is an education in and of itself, as Eleanor Roosevelt once said. Hence, at the heart of both communication and therapy, we have what is known as “transference” or “transference-love” to borrow from Freud. In a sense, Freud equated “transference” to therapy. And the goal of therapy, as Freud argued, is to help the … Continue reading Suggestion
Humble
And if love and hate is the basic polarity which is at the heart of mental and psychic life, then what does love actually mean? How do we define and explain love? In essence, there are two kinds of love, namely, self-love or love for a love object. The whole process of love, and love … Continue reading Humble
The Doctrine of Repression
The overall absurdity and dilemmas which we face in the world scene are also conscious and repressive. All of it weighs on the mind heavily. Hence, we revert to the issue of Freudian repression, given that we find that repression is at the heart of both organization and structure upon close examination. Western repression ends up being … Continue reading The Doctrine of Repression
Adam A. Azim 