01: What is Psychoanalysis?
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Overdetermination of Meaning in Psychoanalysis
Freud: Human behavior in human life is not given to us in tiny little discrete functional units. It's a giant messy thing that means a ton of things for the people involved, he says. The idea there being that you have stuff which is on the level of meaning, almost inexhaustible; it can mean multiple things to multiple people. But also, too, there's this notion of overdetermination, again, of having a surplus of meaning,.
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