#68: Psychoanalysis & Revolution (ft. Ian Parker)
It's Not Just In Your Head
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The Problem With Identity Politics
I think that identity is something that comes into being and mutates. And we treat in psychoanalysis as something dialectical. We don't aim to reinforce people's identity, or to build an identity. If anything, if anything, psycho analysis deconstructs or unravels identity. It enables people to think of the different, competing, contradictory identities that they have in an ine inne tats rit. They certainly don't pigeon hole people on the basis of one aspect of their identity. Theres a prasin in freud where he says, the aim of psychoanalysis is where it was their ego shall be,. As if you should push away the id and build your ego
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