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New Books in Psychoanalysis

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Is the Psychoanalyst a Contemporary Shaman?

Is the psychoanalyst then just a contemporary shaman? Or is it or is a psychoanalyst doing something different? Am ya, and that's levy stauss point yas e believes that the analyst is a contemporary am shaman or shalman. So he, the analyst, is not some one who can give the analisand words like the shamanan. This, in the som rites, plainly supplies the language to express what has been heretofore inexpressible. And so if you believe in that language, then that might help. That might help in the cure.

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