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The How to Read sequence offers a context and a proof that would facilitate and enhance your figuring out of texts important to the canon. those books use excerpts from the main texts to provide an explanation for crucial themes, similar to Jacques Lacan's middle rules approximately leisure, which re-created our notion of psychoanalysis.
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Yes, that’s exactly it, I don’t have the words”. When she began her analysis Gloria would say “words have no meaning, they don’t permeate my brain”, and that it was as if other people were “speaking a foreign language”. Eighteen months into her analysis she said that in speaking to me she was now beginning to “feel real”. She said, “It’s like the Channel WHO SPEAKS? WHO LISTENS? 25 Tunnel, a channel of communication, and you’re opening out the other end of it”. In my work with Gloria I learned how crucial it was that I didn’t subscribe to simplistic notions of identity and collude with her belief that she would be able to find her real identity.
He would rarely use them, managing to hold on until he got home at lunchtime or after school. One day, in a school assembly, he was desperate to go to the toilet. Too terrified to go he weighed up that it would be less terrible just to wet himself there and then: others hadn’t been severely told off for their “accidents”. However, when he got up, leaving the wet puddle, the consequences were enormous. He was publicly reprimanded by the headmistress and his mother was furious with him when he returned home.
She was brought up a Catholic and her criticisms of the Church were the only points of dissension with her parents. Gradually, Jenny began to have erotic feelings for me which she reluctantly spoke of; she thought that it would mean the end of her analysis and that I would find her so disgusting that I would be instantly rejecting and angry. In holding this erotic transference, I opened the space for Jenny to explore her earlier adolescent fantasies and a passionate sexual relationship with another girl at the age of fourteen.