01: What is Psychoanalysis?
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Origins of Hysteria
Freud's practice is essentially to just do extensive sessions of talking to these two people, asking them questions like, well, when did this symptom first happen? Right. He tries to get them to do what he will later call free associate. And otherwise, he just produced language describing their situation. Freud also responsible in different ways for the idea of psychic trauma being different from other types of injuries.
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