I have looked some things up on psychoanalysis because these novels I am looking at lend themselves to it, because it might come back into fashion. I know very little of it really, and I did not realize Freud had written so much about anxiety (although of course he would have).
My anxiety, of course, comes from knowing (not imagining) that what I must do to thrive is also what will cause my execution. I try constantly to discover exactly how little I need to preserve myself and also keep intact my future ability to thrive, while not allowing myself to thrive yet since the coast is not yet clear.
That is the answer to the question I was asked in this dream. Here are some questions I have about the psychoanalytic method, though.
1. On the unconscious. What if you know what the conflict is? Does psychoanalysis insist upon ignoring known issues in favor of possible unknown ones?
2. On interpretation. What if the issue is not repression but ideology, interpretation, values? This is the Dora problem, right?
3. On resistance. What if the analysand is resisting poor interpretation, and is right to be doing so?
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 