Psychoanalytic jargon explained

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scientist more humble, more self-questioning and more self-convinced than Sigmund
Freud. From the very beginning, as his correspondence with Wilhelm Fliess testifies, Freud
had no doubt that he had through an act of heroic and unique courage undertaken to
understand in himself, and others, what humans had always sought to repress, mythologise,
or rationalise in terms other than the truth of the experience itself. To say what he was
discovering, Freud was compelled to borrow the vocabulary of the language as it existed; but
Freud had to distort and extend it to yield the meanings and insights he meant it to
communicate. Hence a completely new languagegradually crystallised in Freud's
hermeneutics of human epistemology. Freud himself was fully and painfully aware that in
time the concepts he had so diligently created to establish a new instrument of self-discovery,
would get taken over by the vulgar zeal of shallow familiarity.
What Freud in affection had attributed to Lou Andr

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