NOBPC: Language Strangeness at the Core of Psychoanalysis by John Rosegrant
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The “talking” part of the talking cure is strange. Often we encounter patients who want to hear from us but don't like what we say, or want us to stop talking when they seem most in need of our help. And often patients wish we would understand them but don't want to say anything, or at least not anything about what they most want us to
understand.
We will look at clinical material with the help of an imaginary educator, an imaginary artist, and an imaginary hiker, to explore how Freud, infant researchers, and Lacan understand this strangeness. We will identify a
fundamental uneasiness and alienation between language and nonverbal parts of the mind, and think about how to address clinically the problems this creates.