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Painting Unicorns
2024-10-24
You can’t paint a picture of a unicorn and then insist that unicorns really exist because you painted one. If you do believe that unicorns really exist, you are doing what is called reification.
It, Me, and Over-Me
2024-09-19
Although the current names (Id, Ego, and Superego) have been in use from the very first translations of Freud’s work in 1924, they are actually a mistranslation. Their use has caused a century of unnecessary confusion and so-called discussion (aka, bitter intellectual squabbling) for analysts, psychotherapists, psychologists, and lay-people alike.
On Metaphor
2023-10-17
In therapy, the main value of metaphor is this feeling itself: it allows you to take abstract, and difficult-to-explain thoughts and emotions and turn them into tangible, familiar objects and processes. You give yourself something to grab onto, and you finally get to feel like you actually understand something about yourself.
