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Many psychologists use psychoanalysis the same way many priests use religious stories to provide guidance. It’s a great source of allegories. It’s also prestigi
by abyssin 3y ago
Many psychologists use psychoanalysis the same way many priests use religious stories to provide guidance. It’s a great source of allegories. It’s also prestigious and lets them charge a lot of money, while practicing “floating attention” ie. letting their mind wander while listening and not actually paying attention. Last is that in many countries anyone can pretend to be a psychoanalyst. Lacan famously said “Le psychanalyste ne s'autorise que de lui-même”.
- Gerard0 3y agoSurprised to read this quote here! This means nothing/no one can guarantee you being a psychoanalyst. Just like either you can code and be good at it or not. That's all this phrase means. Of course it gets tricky. A programmer can show the result and it either works or it doesn't. An analyst can't show anything, really. Even if the analysand claims his/her life has changed because of an analysis (people also claim Jesus changed them, for example). About the floating attention thing, that's a very strange generalization ("analysts don't pay attention"). It is about treating all the "material" equally (ie without preconceptions).
- abyssin 3y agoA common opinion held in the field of psychoanalysis is that its goal isn’t even to cure people because they claim it isn’t possible. Escaping accountability by saying accountability doesn’t make sense.