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
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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
Love and Hate
It follows that we do not stop at conflict when we are pursuing a final analysis of everything, given that in the end, everything is psychoanalytical, and given that everything is psychoanalytical, conflict ends up serving as a mere model for psychoanalysis. We have repression and the self-preservation instinct on one hand, and on the … Continue reading Love and Hate
A Masculine Protest
In essence, what is at the heart of the social world and at the heart of our social reality - namely, the unconscious - is unknown. And it is unknown because what drives the unconscious is an outer-body energy which psychoanalysts have called the “libido.” Repression is “brought to bear upon the libidinal instincts.” Repression … Continue reading A Masculine Protest
Adam A. Azim 