To remind the importance and solvency of the proposals of psychoanalysis, today, when the majority seems to seek refuge in social networks to reaffirm their convictions, what we could name as digital gregariousness exhibits a series of behaviors that are not new.
In search of calm, he/she decides to repress the real, but uncomfortable, and seeks validation in the group. The so-called popular wisdom would say that it is consolation for many, the "coaches" made cognitive bias fashionable, Freud described it with absolute clarity as a defense mechanism, rationalization.
For this reason, psychoanalysis, uncomfortable, is not interested in discussion between convinced, on the contrary, insists on looking in the darkest corners emanating the tensions of the individual, the heuristics of consciousness; it presupposes that there is always something hidden.
Psychoanalysis is a worthy representative of "The School of suspicion".
Freud's books are an invitation to open-minded thinking. When I read them, they invite me, annoy me, disturb me, and it is because in every "psychoanalytic" text there is always something intimate and secret about each of us.
Childhood, sexuality, traumas, manias, obsessions, pathologies, madness itself.
It is well known that for Freud the "absolute" psychic normality" does not exist.
We only stay in the externality of individuals, their masks and social disguises and ignore or prefer to ignore the abysses, ghosts, anxieties and agonies that identify us intimately and that we ignore or prefer to ignore.
You have to be happy, whatever it takes. Pain has to be repressed and show that you master your feelings... and with the proliferation of coaches for everything from food, fits and magic filters, we have to be beautiful and happy, absolutely.
By ignoring it, denying it or repressing it on a rational and conscious level, everything ends up in that "Pandora's box" that we call unconscious and that includes dreams and nightmares, which are sometimes so strong that they cause me insomnia and raise my blood cortisol.
The great merit of Freud is that he dared to draw back the curtain on the secrets of the bedroom and the confessional.
Psychoanalysis is not properly a science, it is a knowledge, a knowledge, by some very questioned, but in my opinion it has been useful. Not so much to "cure" as to delve deeper into the human condition, always complex and contradictory, and which remains our main anthropological and epistemological challenge.
The "know thyself" is still a pending task for most people. And in our confused age it has been accentuated, because we tend to believe and feel more than to think.
We boast of our techno-rational modernity and disbelieve almost everything, traditions and religions, and we practice an agnosticism and a relativism that "everything is allowed" and the only important thing for me "yo-yo" is my happiness, whatever the cost, there are no barriers or limits, and we think we are "free".
Nothing is more false, any advertiser manipulates our tastes and consumption. Any demagogue appropriates our vote. The algorithms "serve" the media menu, and so we all see the same thing, have fun in the same.
Healthy life, changes the existence of anyone.
Never again, enslaved and alienated to the extent that our relationship with reality is mediated by power as never before.
The ongoing historical crisis has been developing for a century and more. I feel like we've gone from a predictable world to an unpredictable world. And rereading Freud, I think he is still useful in this "agonizing postmodern identity".
In the familiar, every day and then the habit we get stuck, even if this is unhealthy. Therefore, we will always choose the old, learned and repeated.
I don't expect anyone else to come and heal me. No one could do such a task better than myself... of this I am convinced.
Here I share with you, in the images (photos) my reflections and my way of existing.
Janitze.
Any images in this post are taken with my iPhone 12, the Infinix pro-note 30 or with the camera Rolleiflex 2.8 f, and edited with Canva
Separator made with Canva by @janitzearratia
Translation with |DeepL