Freedom of thought – and at best I think we still have a very limited
freedom in that respect – means the freedom to know our own thoughts
and that ... means knowing the unwelcome as well as the welcome, the
anxious thoughts, those felt as “bad” or “mad”, as well as constructive
thoughts and those felt as “good” or “sane”… - Hanna Segal
In this talk I’m speaking particularly to students who may be interested
in psychoanalysis, but not have much of an experience of one for
themselves. Then it’s easy to get hold of an idea in an intellectual way,
but not so much in an emotional, gut, way.
I am bringing parts of a book that is being published bringing
psychoanalytic thinking to the everyday reader: The Rough Beast. I am
bringing ideas and vignettes to do with defences against knowing; and
what is defended against: the mad, the bad (and the sad) as well as the
good and the sane.
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