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02: Transference

Ordinary Unhappiness

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Freud's Theory of Resistance

The central thing that you are there to discuss, you literally cannot bring yourself to talk about. Or you could also think about resistance in terms of like avoidance. And this gets at the love stuff to like, imagine the patient that goes to see a therapist. And they're like, this is the best therapist ever. Freud even notes this, right? The idea there is much as we, and like, look, look,. Look, so it's like two things there. One, we have a commitment to repetition, right? This is sort of this idea, a very basic thing. What's familiar to you? You're attached to, but also like you could, you kind of

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