David Lomas, “The Haunted Self: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity.”

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

Trump as Id - excellent piece by @eric-reinhart.com - www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

The resemblances between different mythologies are sometimes uncanny—suggesting to some that beneath the confusion of gods, ghosts, and rituals, there might be a hidden order.

How Carl Jung Inspired the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous

Director's observations: "Jacques is intelligent but bizarre: his work is irregular. He uses his diplomacy to circumvent the rules." The Director (from #JacquesLacan ’s end of year report; exhibited at Centre Pompidou, Metz. 2024.) #psychanalyse #psychoanalysis

[June 20th, 1925] Professor Josef Breuer, 83, has died after a long illness in Vienna, Austria. Breuer was acknowledged by Sigmund Freud as the founder of psychoanalysis and a source of his fundamental ideas. #history #OTD #1920s

Carl Jung on creativity www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/09/c...

Good books… are books to which one stands in rather the same relationship as to “good” friends, to whom one owes a part of one’s knowledge of life and view of the world… Sigmund Freud.

Sigmund Freud’s office and psychoanalytic couch in the Freud Museum, London. #Freud #museum #psychoanalysis #London #photography

Bigger Trees Nearer Warter by David Hockney Winter 2008 Oil on Nine Canvases (Private Collection)

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

Damn the way Freud can define a word just stuns me sometimes, it captures you. #psychoanalysis #psychodynamic #psychology #freud #sigmundfreud

Today is April 13. On this date in 1901 philosopher Jacques Lacan was born. Referred to as “the French Freud,”an important figure in the history of psychoanalysis. His work explored the significance of Freud’s discovery of the unconscious in connection with a wide range of other disciplines.

“I must always have an object to love,” Freud confessed to Carl Jung www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

IMAGO: In Jungian psychology the imago is the internal image of a caregiver, shaped by early memories, traumas & emotions. It lives deep in the psyche, affecting the lens through which we view the world. Inks, fineliner, charcoal on Fabriano 640gsm 15x22” #Jung #Art #Surreal #psychology #sciart

'The puddle bathers' by contemporary Glasgow artist and printmaker Fiona Watson #womensart

I research the formative & enduring influence of our engagement with cultural objects (film, art, literature, music) on our lives. I’m interested in our emotional & unconscious attachments to cultural objects, what they might tell us about ourselves & how psychoanalysis might help

Children are “living in the moment, as few adults are capable of doing.” Milton Ehrlich (1970) The Role of Body Experience in Therapy. #inthemoment #now #comic #moment #psychology #psychoanalysis

Author Copies arrived today. Years of toil, forks in the road, stops and starts, heartbreak and joy. In the end, mostly joy. #philsky #Jung #Spinoza

This book considers the sculpture of Louise Bourgeois in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott's radical ideas regarding transitional objects, potential space, and play, offering a model for exploring the complex and psychologically evocative work Bourgeois produced from 1947 to 2000.

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." Albert Camus

Depth Psychologists: this Christmas, expecting Eros or Thanatos?

www.chalquist.com/post/religio... - “Nones” are religiously nonaffiliated people whose numbers are rising. Do we need religion, or can we do without it? If not, what are our alternatives? And what sort of worldview can help us make sense of our troubled time?

Glasgow artist and printmaker Fiona Watson, A Lullaby of Longing, 2015

Arthur may have been a forerunner to Carl and his concept of Persona #jung #depthpsychology #psychoanalysis

Welcome to WA on Bluesky as requested by you xx 'Breathing Space' by Janis Goodman

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Your #existential PSA for the day:

Zazen is not meditation. It is not a mental exercise, a thing you do with your mind. It is not focused on practices that are antidotes to afflictive states or secondary consciousness. It is not about attaining a special state, being relaxed, or solving your problems.

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." — James Baldwin

—Robert Reich (2024) @rbreich.bsky.social #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity