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Episode 1: What is Psychoanalysis?

Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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Psychoanalysis - The Role of Childhood in Psychoanalysis

In psychoanalysis, we would speak about a conflict between the pleasure principle and that which compels us to carry out our obligations. For the pleasure principle, eating lots of chocolate cannot be characterized as a disorder for it could be remedied with exercise or dieting. It has its purpose and is part of a mental compromise solution. We need to eat chocolate for something, which is why it is so difficult to give it mental symptoms.

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