The Psycho-Analytic Experience
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Emotion |
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A set of three articles that describe, define, and analyse some important emotions. The first article is The Nature of Emotion. |
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Abreaction |
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A set of five articles explaining the process of abreaction and why catharsis leads to resentment. The first article is Abreaction. |
The two basic abreactions of guilt and pride are described in the articles on Abreaction. The remaining two abreactions, those of narcissism and jealousy, are described in the article The Conversion Experience, on my websites The Strange World of Emotion and Patterns of Spirituality. See Links page for their addresses.
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The Psycho-Analytic Experience |
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introduces the issues that feature in a psycho-analysis : motivation, self-deception, determinism, and more. |
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the sequence from instability to stability to flexibility. One limitation to analysis. |
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handling memories and change. More limitations to analysis. Memories and themes. |
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begin with observations. Absorb ideas and re-structure belief systems. Idealism and will. 2nd and 3rd rules. |
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the journey through personal and social changes is a dialectical one. Plus relativism. |
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Method in a Psycho-Analysis |
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awareness training and variations on method. Will power and anxiety. Use of mindfulness in handling distress. |
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from feelings to intellect. Notes on intelligence, intuition, tunes, and influence of media. Using a journal. |
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Roots of Identity |
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three factors of bonding, and the two forms of true transference. Stages and origins. |
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two primary needs that act on a person. Tests for separating them. |
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the infant is reliant on these two mental characteristics to help create its ego. Intense experience. |
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problems caused by lack of awareness in the parent- child relationship. Two strategies. |
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mechanics of imprinting and identification. Roles of parents and effects of envy. More on infancy trauma. |
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Patterns of Identity |
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social and individual identities, and the factors of which they are constituted. |
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five effects that help shape the person's identity : includes sensitivity and Oedipus complex. |
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in a changing world, a person needs a stable identity. |
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the diagrams in Two Identities collected together. |
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Abreaction as Therapy |
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function of abreaction ; effects of fear and confusion on identity ; instability ; stages of abreaction. |
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descriptions of intense abreactions. |
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exploration of the mind can produce illness ; loneliness, pain of insight, and handling the ego. |
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From the Old to the New |
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from old identities to new ones ; search for truth ; causality and motivation. Place of existential writers. |
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catharsis reverses values ; role & sex reversal ; disjunctive states of mind, and the ideal mother image. |
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