The text discusses the motivations behind becoming a psychoanalyst, emphasizing that intentions of healing and understanding typically stem from fantasy, which misaligns with the true role of an analyst. It argues that actual desire for analysis emerges only through personal analytic experience, leading to a novel relation to suffering and desire, independent of moral goals.
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Against Reality – A New Pamphlet with Everyday Analysis
I’m thrilled to share the release of my new pamphlet with Everyday Analysis, titled "Against Reality.” You can buy it in digital or printed format here. One of the most common misuses of Freud’s notion of the “reality principle” is confusing it with the adaptation of the patient to reality. In doing so, many psychoanalysts… Continue reading Against Reality – A New Pamphlet with Everyday Analysis

