01: What is Psychoanalysis?
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Function of Absolute Knowledge
In reality, the person who is walking to the front of the classroom is just experiencing themselves as a kind of conglomeration of perceptions and thoughts. And it's also the function that underwrites my talking into a microphone right now, the very idea that I might have something valuable to transmit. We're already performing some psychoanalytic type thinking here. It should become clearer as we do this because we're going to be using examples both from everyday life, but also from like high stress situations and also from like childhood and from like dramatic events in history. These are all kinds of fields of data sometimes for Psychoanalytic theory.
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