Wrapped up journals for Fall 2025 Personality course! Honorable Mentions (1/2)           Darsh Bhalala  Svetlana Bogdanova  Magaret Canavan  Adora Chen  Ella Chen  Sarah Del Prado  Andrew Ding

“…[antisemitism] had hardly been noticed by either learned or public opinion because [it] belonged to a subterranean stream of European history where, hidden from the light of the public & the attention of the enlightened, [it] had been able to gather an entirely unexpected violence.“p7 Arendt

Tips from this years conference I think Modern Psychoanalysts would agree with… from Bruce Fink #Lacan Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies What Not to Do with Psychotics

Had an amazing reunion with my former students @northeasternu.bsky.social while at a conference in New York. Keeps the importance of mentorship and the impact of teaching on future generations. @northeasterncos.bsky.social

Amazing discussions last night at BGSP on Netflix’s, devastating #Adolescence Aidan McGowan presented a poster from @northeasterncos.bsky.social And Sahlean and I presented ideas while the audience questioned if this would have been gun violence if set in the US

Update from the classroom: multiple class periods spent way too much time trying to explain how the phrase "lowkey" works today and despite all their patience with me I still lowkey don't get it.

To represent emotion is to expereince it, and once expereinced, it can be experienced again, with less need for distancing the self from it, as it becomes more tolerable and internalized. p112 from Barahona's book- Such a great summary of Learning from Expereince.

"... I became aware of aware of murder enetering the analytic field in an important way. haunting the field between us like our own ghosts, underneath the disguise of my fantastic countertransference feelings and in the whispers [the patient] imagined..." p75 #Psychoanalysis

"Where the #ego was, there a black hole remains" - p59 #Bion #Psychoanalysis Barahona's book -

"I would like to emphasize here that what I am referring to as T(-H),which involves processses of disinvestment of the representational capacity, is not the passive process that turns of phrases like 'leaves a terrifying emptiness' suggest, but an active process of ...

Thank you, Andy!

Wow! Honorable mentions on Journal 2! Some* are 2x honorees: @northeasterncos.bsky.social Russell Arellano Darsh Bhalala Marina Krumins-Beens* Lola Laurent Josi VGood Katherine Lazenby Jackson Lemmond Saimaa Malhorta Maya Mollamustafaolu*

Therapy in the age of AI - how to stay human: open.spotify.com/episode/6MUU...

Here you go. Use it on anything you want.

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Thanks Aidan for helping out at the Gabriel Major Fair Tuesday! @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social @northeasterncos.bsky.social

First jounrals in #Psyc3400 ... honorable mentions go to: Nicole Alocer Caitlin Jennings Maria Krumins-Beens Maya Mollomusfafaoglu Laura Moreno Manon Tricia Narahari Jordan Nguyen William North Shana Soyfer Alvaro Antonio Tuason Testing in progress! #Psychoanalytic theories to come Wednesday!

Thanks for this @DrBevinCampbell Worth the trip to Twitter x.com/drbevincampb...

This story is eye opening… and helps us understand that with all the ways AI can help, it’s not a person- it’s a program telling you what will keep you engaged- “ sycophant mode” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/p...

Freud's brilliance on his insistence that "abnormal psychology" is not so distant from what we call "normal" at all but only a matter of degree. Better yet, "abnormal functioning" gives us the best window we could possibly have into what we call normal: 1/3

#Jung #CollectiveUnconscious Great intro to Jung’s mystical side by @aaronbalick.bluesky open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...

Great analysis- thanks @aaronbalick.com open.substack.com/pub/appliedp... #Winnicott #TransitionalObject #TooGoodToBeTrue

Well said… read in a Substack. open.substack.com/pub/hazelsiv...

Timely article - and a nice complement to my latest Substack. www.gqmiddleeast.com/article/woul...

The seduction of personality types in the West goes all the way back to the ancients. In the fifth century BCE the medical-minded Hippocrates introduced the four temperaments (sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic)

The fact that “introvert” and “extravert” have become identity categories is the antithesis of what Jung intended. He encouraged us to develop our inferior functions, not identify with our superior ones. open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...

“… The ego blocks the instinctual urge; it has become autonomous and anti-instinctive, and then becomes a destructive nuisance, such as we see in every neurotic. A neurosis could even be defined as an ego formation no longer in harmony with the whole personality” p 61.

“Only if one throws a shadow is one real. The shadow plunge man into the immediacy of situations here & now, and thus creates the real biography of the human being, who is always inclined to assume that he is only what he thinks he is. ” p142

“When symbolic factors are repressed, they glut the instincts, and therefore they must be separated out so that the genuine instinct can function without being overloaded.“ Page 134

Evil “provide us with the opportunities to increase consciousness… When we see our own greed, jealousy, spite, hatred… then these can be turned positive because in such destructive emotions is stored much life, & when we have this energy it can be turned to positive ends.”p126

Without the fire of emotions, no development takes place in no higher consciousness can be reached,… p 104

Jung said that to be in a situation where there’s no way out or to be in a conflict where there is no solution is the classical beginning of the process of individual. Page 95.

In its positive meaning, we had the ring as a symbol of union a consciously chosen obligation towards some divine power, that is, toward SELF; in it’s negative aspect it means fascination, being caught, being bound,I.e.: being caught in a vicious cycle P91

The anima–which means for a man, the realm of fantasy and the way he relates to the unconscious-was once integrated .. had reached a human level, but now, under unfavorable, cultural circumstances, has been shut off and repressed into the unconscious“ p84

Intuition? Trusting your gut? A final tendency in the current psychological flow of life… “when someone comes into analysis…According to the Jungian point of view, they … have a final aspect and we therefore look to see where the libido tends to go.“ p 68 

Gold can be buried in the Earth and dug up unharmed after 1000 years, unlike copper or silver or iron, so it is immortal, that which outlast; it is the eternal, the divine and the most precious, and whenever something is made of gold, it is said to have the eternal quality.

news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/31/c... AI can tell users how to commit suicide if they ask the right way, researchers say “Canca was shocked by the seemingly flippant way the models communicated some of this information, with Chat GPT going so far as to organize information using emojis.”

The animal is the carrier of the projection of human psychic factors…, and as long as you do not take the projection back, the animal and what you projected into it are identical; they are one in the same thing. … our animal instincts. Page 36. 

In the unconscious, all archtypes are contaminated with one another. P. 14.

..[in] attempts at interpretation, one can see a regression to a very personalistic approach. The interpreters judge… misfortunes to be an image of neurosis.pvii she goes on to say that this is a mistake,they are “the difficulties and dangers given to us by nature.“

In terms of Jung's concept, every archetype is in its essence an unknown psychic factor, and therefore there is no possibility of translating its content into intellectual terms.P1

Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes. Therefore their value for the scientific investigation of the unconscious exceeds that of all other material.p1

A dashing young Freud at 35 years of age!

#SDCC #SDCC2025 #ComicCon #Superman #Supergirl #SquidGame #Joker #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersLife

The problem with AI and its goals: Intellectual honesty sometimes conflicts with customer satisfaction. And when push comes to shove, a lot of systems prioritise “keep the user happy” over “challenge the user to think more carefully.” open.substack.com/pub/appliedp... @aaronbalick.com

A crisis of meaning is a philosophical problem that presents itself as a psychological one. Symptoms of depression, anxiety, frustration and listlessness can be harbingers of the question we’re all struggling to answer, “what’s the purpose of my life?” www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/midl...

Your character- and those defense mechanisms, complexes, or whatever you call them- are important and not to be gotten rid of or ignored! Understand them and once you know they’re there, your crazy can work for you! Thanks Aaron! open.substack.com/pub/appliedp... @aaronbalick.com

Did you know that the very thing that makes you spin out is the ticket to your freedom from it? In today’s Substack post I'll be discussing how to learn that within your own personal crazy lay the keys to finding peace with it. open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...

The Alien and our unconscious .. or … The Therapist’s fear of the unknowable? Read the review then then the book! news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/02/u...

Your top ten book recommendations from Freud himself - suggested in a way only Freud would: open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...