
Psychoanalysis and Existentialism
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Is There a Line That Cannot Be Crossed?
Is this a line that cannot be crossed? This unconscious choice? Conscious choice? Yes. I do fundamentally think that psychoanalysis is itself an existential project. That's not a... It's about trying to discover what is the real nature of your existence, your own singular existence. Right. But like I don't... I think that the notion of an existential choice because I think in their mind they think they're trying to accomplish something good and it'd be nice if that was portrayed but then we could see the way in which the unconscious undermined it. Mm hmm. You can think... there are certain aspects of the two projects that you can think together and we sort of laid some
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