Learning about/from psychoanalysis

“They share misery, exclusion, disappearance, anxiety, and those feelings that sway between intractability and inevitability”-exactly, they cannot be escaped and if once one accepts and acknowledges that, things shift  “how difficult it is to separate the transit between oppression and depression. Indeed, those who seek clinical relief from the agonies of depression identify their feelings as oppressive ,deadening, and persecutory, for no cause at all”-interesting comparison;“Psychical and social loss marks our work, loss of self and other unconsciously impresses our understanding of transformation, and all of this affects what we can symbolize as becoming transformed.”-influenced by outside sources, our life experiences, particularly loss and the disadvantaged realities people face at earlier ages than others, whether by mental health or other forces“Not only are we utterly susceptible to impressive thought perceptions and phantasies of the lost object. For Klein, depression — by which she means the awareness of and defense against anxiety over loss of love — becomes our first transformation in becoming a self with others”-because Klein maintained that depressive anxiety is always in relation to the loss of someone or some thing and remains an important component of psychical life ---still influences, now just by the lack of being there; the pain of awareness/knowledge of something that was once there and that can no longer be, or at least not the same“new approaches to the pain of symbolization as our fragile means for apprehending, repairing, and even reconceptualizing the fray, mismatches, and promises of the external world”“Klein proposed the opposite: anxiety calls upon object-words. Klein works within the imaginary realm of “unreal reality,” or fantasies as presenting the urgency of bodily drives attaching to (lost) objects, prior to words.”“Our earliest anxiety situations over loss of love, fear of annihilation, and destruction, Klein speculated, create needed psychical defenses such as projection, introjection, omnipotence, splitting into good and bad, ideality, and identification, all thought perceptions that are both constitutive of the mind and, at first, function as if they are emissaries from reality.”-loses me a bit with the emphasis on loss of breast being the first separation and the following associations“Freud’s model for mourning and melancholia refers depression and oppression to his technical conception of “working through resistances.”“Within the slow mutual study of narrative freedom, the psychoanalyst invites desire. Two types of emancipation for libido occur: from the dictates of external authority dedicated to the destruction of the self’s desire to symbolize, imagine, and care for the social bond and, simultaneously, a psychical emancipation from the grip of internal persecutors that fragment the self and the world. Emancipation is never complete; constructions of memory continue too scillate between the things done and the things yet to do.”“Mourning is painful because we have experienced the profundity of loss before.”-I can see this, it’s why some view children as resilient, when really it’s likely a lack of comprehension and full understanding of what a loss is that is only understood with experience, which often equates to time/age“For Freire, thinking too emerges from a painful confrontation with how the world affects mental life and involves a twofold relation: dissembling emotional attitudes that disparage literacy, intellectual processes, sexuality, and social change and consciousness of social structures and social relations of inequality as historically created”“Under what conditions are the anxieties that tear us apart amendable to symbolization? That is the question that Klein uses as she reformulates the analytic problem, a question that places her work — unwittingly so since she was most notably a courageous clinician and in no waya “master of thought” — at the heart of humanity and the modern crisis of culture.”“Freire and Klein developed the claim that putting together a fragmented world includes the self’s deep awareness of what tears it apart along with what we tear apart in the self without knowing why. Their vocabulary, so different in temporality and idiom — for Freire, the struggle for liberation, and for Klein,  concern for the internal world — gives pedagogy and psychoanalysis a measure of resignation due, in part, to overdetermination, to the unconscious, to the oscillating paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, to human incompleteness, and to accepting the slow work of symbolizing the aftereffects of a history of loss agonized by both structurally induced impoverishment and injustice and fear of vulnerability and dependency.”