Sublime

The cases of Jan, Sue, and Otto illustrate how psychotherapy, by explaining the hidden logic behind sexual fantasies, can reduce patients’ shame and even open up the possibility of changing the basis of their sexual arousal. I say “open up the possibility” because understanding our fantasies doesn’t necessarily mean that we want, or need, to change

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What if the psyche were a thing held in common? That is to say, what if our purchase on reality and the emergence of the self depended on human relationships and communities? From this perspective, the enclosure of the human psyche deprives us of a common world, which yields an experience of solidarity and belonging.

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Freud (1927), the father of psychology, divided the psyche into three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego. He saw the id as our primal, animal nature; the superego as the judgment system that society has instilled within us; and the ego as our representative to the outside world that struggles to maintain a balance between the other two powerf

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