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Jamieson Webster on Freud

Apology

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Freud's Dream of Erma's Injection

Jacques Lacan's reading of Erma's injection is probably the most stunning interpretation of Freud. He says that he says, Freud was a tough cookie. And so at the moment that he looks in Erma's mouth and he sees the horrifying white, spurmy, thing in her throat, he doesn't wake up because he didn't wake up. The formula for Erma's illness, trimethyl amine, which he says means that the dream is there to be read. It's a nonsense formula. Trimethyl amine isn't anything. If you deduced it, it just means three, three, three,. Which is funny thinking of all the threes and Freud

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