Mark Solms, "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness" (Norton, 2021)
New Books in Psychoanalysis
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The Home of Neuropsychoanalysis
Psychotherapists are famous for asking this question, how do you feel about that? And I think, and sometimes I myself ask this question, it feels very useful. When we speak about them being unconscious, what we really mean is we don't know where it comes from. So a patient feels something, but they don't understand why. That's not unconscious. What's unconscious is the predictions. In other words, what are they doing that they predict will meet this need because clearly it's not workingBecause that needs not being met. The home of neuropsychoanalysis really just helps us to think a little bit more clearly. It sort of brings our theory up to speed with
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