Thursday, July 25, 2019

this explains why relational psychoanalysts so cherish their dissociations

As Birksted-Breen aptly put it:

The individual is forever looking to achieve non-recognition of aspects of himself through splitting, denial, disavowal, repression and projection, while also looking to achieve coherence. (2016: 50)

Lemma, Alessandra. The Digital Age on the Couch (p. 7). Taylor and Francis. 2017, Kindle edition.