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Gail Newman & Mari Ruti - Against Neoliberal Self-Optimization: Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

CHAPTER

The Process of Giving Up Mastery in Order to Gain Creativity

I don't necessarily have a full question in this but I think that that's it kind of shows perhaps Freud's right later wrongly because I know Anna Freud took this to an extreme and Lacan has this whole spiel against you know ego psychoanalysis where it's just about strengthening the ego. The dangerous aspects of the notion of self dissolution or becoming a sea self can only be undertaken if you have some ego strength to begin with if you have no ego at all it's impossible to.

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