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PSYCHOANALYSIS THREAD

Tell me your dreams edition

So, watcha been reading with psychoanalytical glasses?

Does anyone gets Lacan right? Is it even possible?

>>10000437
Just read Freud. After that you won't be able to take any other ''theory'' of sexuality seriously.

>not being freudpilled yet

Even when he was wrong, he was wrong in the right ways. You can only start to understand modernity through Freud.

I recommend you start with The Psychopathology of Everyday life, then Interpretation of Dreams and, after that, depends on what interests you the most. Totem and Taboo is essential, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it as an intro to Freud.
After Freud himself, move on to Lacan, Klein and Bion. If you find Lacan too difficult, pick up Zizek's How to Read Lacan. If you want to inquire into psychoanalysis' legitimacy as a science, read Gaston Bachelard and Bion, neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan's seminars on psychoanalysis as an ethic, discourse and science of language, and the studies of Leichsenring and Rabung. These don't all lead to a single avenue of understanding, instead there's a multiplicity of approaches and conclusions.

A critical reading of the classical critique of psychoanalysis by Popper and Wittgenstein will show how it is limited, pseudo-epistemological and fundamentally misunderstands psychoanalysis. If you want to get completely woke, read up on epistemic pessimism, epistemological anarchism and the critical theory critique of the scientific method, and read Feyerabend, Louis Althusser and The Dialectics of Enlightenment.

Having said all that, I personally find it highly ineffective to self-teach philosophy and psychoanalysis. Ideally, you should be studying this with the help of a professor, and you should be in psychoanalysis yourself as an analysand.