I have been reading Freud's 1919 paper "A Child Is Being Beaten" and reflecting on the absurdly worded referendum we are being subjected to at the moment here in New Zealand. I sent an email to all the MP''s recently encouraging them to vote "yes" and thought it might be interesting to see some of […]
If Only He Had Suggested I Came Back!
In the early nineteen-eighties, when I was in my twenties, my older brother suggested I went to see someone at the Tavistock Insititute in London. I think he had been seeing a therapist there on and off over the years. He had always kept an elder sibling's eye on me and he could see I […]
Psychoanalysis as optimistic
There is something recklessly optimistic about psychoanalysis. I was reminded of this when driving my children to school the other morning I was listening to Carole King singing on 'The Living Room Tour'. Her voice seemed recklessly optimistic and I found myself thinking her music precedes the uprising of cybernetics where we began to think […]
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