2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Alice writes extensively about the criticism of Freud by Binswanger and Boss. In particular, Freud's concept of desire, the idea that desire is due to attraction. And if Binswanger, being a friend of the founder of psychoanalysis, tried to reconcile their concepts, then the Boss could no longer be particularly worried about this.
Their main objection is that desire cannot be reduced, reduced to biological need, that biological is only one of the modes. Attraction means being captured, while a person expresses desire out of freedom and openness. At the same time, desire is voluntary, that is, it has to do with the will of a person.
It turns out that in the Freudian concept, a person loses his will, his own free will as a subject of awareness, to a large extent replaces the will that has moved into the unconscious. In fact, the will of the subject is replaced by the will of the unconscious.
I recall various philosophical concepts that prescribe the will of man himself as a will derived from the will of the Highest. From St. Augustine to Schopenhauer … And also - Nietzsche, who insisted on the autonomy of the will of the subject, on the fact that the will of man is his own will.
It turns out, in this plane of consideration, that the unconscious replaces some higher power, in fact, God? Since desires and, in general, the will of a person splashes out from there?
However, taking into account the fact that the content of the unconscious is interpreted as filled with destructive and sexual desires, it would be more accurate to compare it not with a higher, but with a lower force … Yeah, wherever thoughts and associations do not lead …
Recommended:
Love And Love. Is There A Difference? Mindfulness And Unconscious Relationship Patterns
Today, at the penultimate consultation on Skype, late in the evening, at almost 9, we were analyzing the algorithms of codependent relationships with the client. A young woman, telling her story, shared genuine bewilderment: all her attempts to establish relations with a beloved man ran into "
Maybe A Goal, Maybe Not
My second favorite topic, after motivation, is goals! They are now shouted about at every corner, great gurus promise to tell you secrets and secrets of how to set goals correctly. And I'll just give you excerpts from the textbook, again, on the psychology of motivation, it turned out to be a lot.
DESIRE VS NEED. HOW TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS STANDING FOR DESIRE
What is the difference between wants and needs? Are these concepts equal? Desire is the materialization of needs, their objectification. The needs themselves are not material, but they feed on what we get in the material world. In other words, desires are a kind of "
AND MAYBE ENOUGH? ABOUT THE DURATION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
When working with a psychoanalyst, psychologist or psychotherapist, each client has a quite natural question, "Have I delayed the therapy?", "Maybe that's enough?" Sometimes this question arises when, in the course of therapy, we work through some painful moments of the past.
Who And What Is The Source Of The Crisis In Psychotherapy?
The therapeutic situation of experiencing, in turn, initiates the dynamics of ever new phenomena appearing in contact, each of which, let me remind you, develops to a form and degree determined by the current situation of contact. Considering dialogue psychotherapy as a therapy for a controlled crisis, it should be noted that the current state of therapy is determined by the presence of a specific design of crises actualized at this stage.
