next talk on the 28th September Thursday, September 28 Leon Brenner - Against Reality in Psychoanalysis - Part 2 One of the most common misuses of Freud’s notion of the “reality principle” confuses it with the adaptation of the patient to reality. In doing so, many psychoanalysts and therapists take it on themselves to be the harbingers of an objective reality to which the patient must succumb. However, Freud had never formulated this naïve conception of the reality principle as representing a single objective reality that gives shape to our thoughts. In contrast, Freud postulates that the reality principle solely enables the subject to delay immediate satisfaction in the aim of future satisfaction. This conception accompanied Freud’s teaching from the very moment that he abandoned his seduction theory. mailchi.mp/5504d31398a3/leon-brenner-against-realty-part-2
The best explanation for the mirror stage I've heard. I'm looking forward for other Dr. Brenner lectures in the future.
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next talk on the 28th September
Thursday, September 28
Leon Brenner - Against Reality in Psychoanalysis - Part 2
One of the most common misuses of Freud’s notion of the “reality principle” confuses it with the adaptation of the patient to reality. In doing so, many psychoanalysts and therapists take it on themselves to be the harbingers of an objective reality to which the patient must succumb.
However, Freud had never formulated this naïve conception of the reality principle as representing a single objective reality that gives shape to our thoughts. In contrast, Freud postulates that the reality principle solely enables the subject to delay immediate satisfaction in the aim of future satisfaction. This conception accompanied Freud’s teaching from the very moment that he abandoned his seduction theory.
mailchi.mp/5504d31398a3/leon-brenner-against-realty-part-2
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What if there are no mirrors available for the child
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