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Leftist-Gamer

Sexual Abuse and Psychoanalysis

I was in Belfast this week with Jamieson Webster - talking about toxic masculinity, sexual abuse, childhood sexuality and what it means to be psychoanalytic about sex. I thought she was extremely interesting. What do people think? It seems to me that there is a need to be critical of the discourse around sex and sexuality - including sexual abuse - but that this often runs into problems pretty quickly. Jamieson does a really good job of treating it bravely but also with subtlety.

I am new to the thread. I am interviewing a different psychoanalyst every Friday and would really like some suggestions of who I might interview in future? I really only know Lacanians myself, so I would particularly like to branch out a bit - who are the prominent Kleinians for example? What other psychoanalytic traditions should I think about?

The Jamieson Webster one is here: https://youtu.be/Q633n2GrEck

Posted May 28, 2022, 9:22 AM UTC

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all4dopamine•

My only suggestion is to not have a UFO in your picture. It directly harms your credibility.

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Leftist-GamerOP•

haha why!?

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all4dopamine•

I'm not discounting the possibility of life on other planets, or even the possibility that we've been visited by them, but the image of a little-green-men style flying saucer is so strongly associated with nut jobs that I believe I'm not the only one who will have an automatic negative bias

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BeautifulS0ul•

I have a fairly strong negative bias towards those who use the term 'nut jobs'.

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yelbesed•

I think you should ask things from Peter Fonagy because (look up on Google or Wiki) he has made fMRI research (between 1990-2010) on parent-infant "intersubjective" or "mentalizing" neuronal patterns and that makes the whole Freudian "champ" or field more secure.

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alexander__the_great•

You really fly the flag for Fonagy's fMRI research on this subreddit.

Pete, is that you?

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yelbesed•

Hi Alex, I think i am lucky in this respect: my great Aunt was the secretary of Anna Freud , so I know about him (P. Fonagy started his career in the Anna Freud Center) and his research since decades -

And it is difficult to argue that it is not a decisive breakthrough for the scientifization of some of the basic theses of Freud and diminish his mainstream rejection..

.It was important in my own personal healing process and analysis. Without trust, no ingenious insight of psychogurus may help. With trust any quack may heal you.

So whenever I see someone is mistrustful around psy-an I mention him. . And I met PF 40 ys ago at a bday party...although we did not talk then...I did not know what he was doing back then...

So yes, I think I know his work is meaningful for Freud - and yes I do know he has important collaborators and parallel researchers - but his name is the flagship in my eyes due to these coincidences.

Plus I have an ongoing nuisance-ban in r/lacan because i was criticizing my banning by Asdiwal... so I cannot do the same with Lacan. Although he also revives Freud and I have even more trust in him (due to his decades-long dispute against Anna Freud).

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