Dr Ana M
@OnNegation
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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist | Ex scientist (dev bio & neuro) | Back on twitter after my hiatus to Freud-fluence some more | Royal Society of Biology | UKCP
London, England
Joined August 2025
Starting to feel overwhelmed by how many messages of support I've had since I came back here 🥲 I'm glad to be back spreading the message that Freud was in fact extremely cool, and that you should never ever write off psychoanalysis as a clinical method
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It's as though some people don't realise that psychoanalysis is meta-psychology
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"The term unconscious...designates not latent ideas in general, but especially ideas with a certain dynamic character, ideas keeping apart from consciousness in spite of their intensity and activity." Sigmund Freud, 'A Note on the Unconscious'
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To Freud, the mind is active, it is dynamic - we are not passive recipients of external and internal stimuli - our mind works dynamically to construct the reality that we live in
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"All things are chained, entangled, lovingly bound." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'
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'To interpret and to imagine one understands are not at all the same things. It is precisely the opposite. I would go so far as to say that it is on the basis of a kind of refusal of understanding that we push open the door to analytic understanding."
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Jacques Lacan: "How many times have I said to those under my supervision, when they say to me – I had the impression he meant this or that – that one of the things we must guard most against is to understand too much..."
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"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were." -- Marcel Proust
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Loved a CPD event tonight with the psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz. I'll have to read his new book, where one of the things he talks about is the "ecstasy of sanctimony" when we derive pleasure in blaming others, while avoiding looking at ourselves
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Unexpected overlap between Lacan and Winnicott!
All objects in the infant’s play are transitional objects. The infant doesn’t need to be given toys in the strict sense, because he turns anything that falls in his hands into a transitional object.
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Sigmund Freud and his beautiful writing: "Every psychoanalytic treatment is an attempt at liberating repressed love which has found a meagre outlet in the compromise of a symptom."
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So sad to hear that American psychoanalyst and philosopher, Jonathan Lear, has passed away. I just loved his writing and serious engagement with psychoanalysis and its intersection with philosophy. His 'Freud' book is a must read. RIP.
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My current energy: "I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time." Virginia Woolf
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My "currently reading" book pile of psychoanalysis and philosophy books is starting to get out of hand
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Freud circa 1897:
have you ever try to help someone and realize they like their problems???
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His texts on groups and civilisation are well worth reading (even if you completely disagree with them) as they are one man's attempt to make sense of senselessness
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