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Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in Psychoanalysis

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Laughter Is the Best Medicine

There is a lot of energy expended to work through the integration of the memory. And so there could also just on an economic basis be that the repression, if it takes a lot of cyclical force to keep the idea out of the associative link,. It's almost a way of acknowledging it so as to put it back down even harder. Laughter unleashes the physical affect, right? The pressure. Yeah, laughing. And it can create endorphins to get back to this biological. Laughter is the best medicine. I mean, for Freud, if laughing were enough, that would make psychoanalysis easy. If it were that easy, we would have perfected psychoanalysis millennia ago

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