Sigmund Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"
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- čas přidán 18. 02. 2022
- In this episode, I present Sigmund Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia."
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perfect explanation, i love this for my psychoanalysis in literature
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This made so much sense. Thanks!
Excellent summary. Thank youy.
This was great thank you so much. Greetings from London .
nice video, id love to hear your analysis of Schopenhauer, i know he's not everybody's cup of tea but he had some early observations of the idea that life is ceaseless desires
Thank you that was excellent
Didn't know about this monograph! Thank you very much.
1918, the year when most of the people of Europe had some personal knowledge of a senseless and untimely death.
It's very helpful.
I thought the essay was saying: The lost object is internalised, so the patient will attack herself as if she is the lost object because she is angry about the loss.
Could you please talk about the affect theory?
Thanks
So basically in melancholia, you want to control the object. Kind of wanting to own it. İn mourning i guess you accept the loss of the object but in melancholia,you don't. So you get angry. Mostly towards yourself. Because of the desire of wanting to control / own. This was my understanding. Am i correct?
So,letting things go will help resolving melancholia. Cuz it's a basic state of my mind. And I've realized how i simply don't accept things. Losing them or never getting them at the first place. İ can't just accept. So i thought that was the reason to my constant anger.
What's that poster you have in the back?
Causes include afflicted, broken-hearted, captive and prisoner, (during childhood). Summed up by the writer Isaiah, and the first subject spoken of by Jesus in his public ministry.
Thanks David. This is very relevant. Can it be said that Melancholia is an unrealised relentless desire of nothing in particular? Mourning possibly gets a closure. Melancholia doesn't. Probably doesn't even intend to.
Can you talk about Jacques Lacan (Real, symbolic, imaginary)? Why Noam chomsky call him charlatan?
I am someone who has a decent background in Lacan so my explanation goes as follows. The Imaginary consists of your ego, ego-ideal, ideal ego, and the specular image. The ego, is the set of resistances and where defense mechanisms come from. ego ideal is the other you measure yourself too. The ideal ego is what you want to be seen as. the specular image is how you present to the world. You are a split being because you have a gap of desire that can never be filled. The Symbolic is the most important order in my view and many others. The symbolic is what regulates your interaction with the world through language, through understanding cultural and social structures, and it is also where morality is centered. You could say the super ego is positioned in the symbolic. The real is the most difficult of Lacan's orders to pin down really. So at first it was this elusive feeling you could only interact with through trauma. In later lacan, it becomes the order of where the drives are situated and where jouissance (pleasure turned pain) is situated. Onto Chomsky, Chomsky's comments of him were due to his performances he would undergo during his seminars which were just unneeded in my view. They were supposed to posture him as this great intelligent man, when he should have let his ideas do that instead. Chomsky himself says that theres probably something under all of the charlatinism but he doesnt have any motivation to look for it.
@@dissatisfiedphilosophy What kind of performances?
@@dissatisfiedphilosophy I don't love everything about Lacan, but I love the theatrics. Maybe this opinion that I've discovered many to share says more about his audience then it does him. I feel the performance brought him pleasure and let the concepts flow from him. Noam is a straight no chaser kind of guy but I don't think Lacan is the opposite, just a little more eccentric.
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