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Blaming your mother with scientific vocabulary and a very expensive couch.
means A therapeutic method, pioneered by Freud, that treats psychological distress by excavating unconscious thoughts, childhood memories, and repressed desires through talk, free association, and dream interpretation.
from Coined from Greek 'psyche' (soul, mind — originally the maiden loved by Eros) plus 'analysis' (a 'loosening' or 'breaking up' into parts, from 'analyein', to unloose). Sigmund Freud assembled the term in German as 'Psychoanalyse' in the 1890s to name his new practice of dissolving the mind's symptoms back down into their hidden original causes — literally 'loosening the soul' to see what it was made of.
- core claim
- your childhood is still driving, badly
- method
- talk about dreams until you cry
- legacy
- unprovable, yet it renamed how we think