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08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Importance of Attunement to Individual Suffering

The Nazis kept the standard edition of Freud in a locked case hidden inside the Berlin psychoanalytic institute. And so what this produces is a situation where people are practicing psychoanalysis, but it is a thoroughly not-sified psychoanalysis. So there's nothing saying that that attunement towards individual suffering or to an individual's experience has to be open to everyone. But on the other hand, if we think that necessarily that commits us to a particular program, I mean, there are plenty of second-line analysts with whom I disagree profoundly about their politics.

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