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M.E. O'Brien and Alex Colston: Parapraxis Issue 1 and the Mistakes of Psychoanalysis
Red Medicine
Psychoanalysis
There's a complicated historical answer to that question. And then I think there is a question of the praxis itself. Some psychoanalysis practitioners historically have thought that a part of helping patients is to adapt them to their social circumstances, basically help them to like go along and get along with the kind of dominant compulsions in capitalist society. But at the same time, it has this other aspect that is is about trying to sort of foment the unconscious, which is itself destabilizing and brings people into conflict with themselves and with society, writ large.
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