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freeze or flow?

freeze or flow?

Steven Vlaeyen
Steven Vlaeyen
Language: English - ISBN: 9789403675923 - 50 pages
Paperback
€9.95
€9.95

Synopsis

In this book, I use a number of metaphors, to help clarify what psychoanalysis is trying to tell us about the psychological make-up and functioning of man. Hoping that this gives the reader more of a feeling with this theory and vision, I follow the way of putting next to each other multiple telling comparisons. We compare the freezing of consciousness by the ego for instance with the sociological activity of the police. The symbolic structuring of the imaginary is related to both a computer programming and a musical language as well as to the function of politics. In putting together these levels of psychodynamic functionality, I try to reason that psychoanalysis makes it comprehensible that communism as thus far practiced has necessarily failed. In order to show a way out, I turn to the East, to the Buddha, and advocate for the solution of the mushin beyond that of the sinthome. Thus, I try to make a case for anarchism, and why it is not so cheap or strange to plea for an absence of putting pressure upon the human soul, when this clearly can only mean the death of his natural intelligence.

About Steven Vlaeyen

Steven Vlaeyen
Steven Vlaeyen is klinisch psycholoog van opleiding, met een grote liefde voor tradities van geestelijk welbevinden uit andere culturen dan de dominante westerse. Het zwaartepunt van zijn ambities ligt in het uittekenen van een therapeutische weg voor de menselijke samenleving op macroschaal. Daarbij gebruikt hij menig inzicht uit oudere genezingstradities, maar tracht toch als ruggengraat van zijn zoektocht dicht bij de Freudiaanse en Lacaniaanse psychoanalyse te blijven.

Product specifications

BindingPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publishing dateWednesday, 14 June 2023
Edition1
ISBN9789403675923
Pagecount50
Interior colorBlack/white
Size110 x 180 mm
AuthorSteven Vlaeyen
CategoryHistory and politics > Politics