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Jayu Eleuthéria

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i tend to give high scores to books.

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Paulo Beer: Psicanálise e ciência (Paperback, Portuguese language, 2017, Blucher) No rating

Psicanálise e ciência é um trabalho impecável, elegante e atual, baseado na análise de provas …

Enfim, a psicanálise nerdola

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A very dear professor hyped this book for years. When I finally managed to put my hands on it, it was worthy of all that hype.

There's nothing groundbreaking about it—neither this is its intent. Paulo Beer simply wishes to reopen a constructive, horizontal exchange with science that Lacanian psychoanalysis slowly elided during its history.

reviewed Thalassa by Sándor Ferenczi

Sándor Ferenczi: Thalassa (Paperback, W. W. Norton) 2 stars

In Thalassa, Ferenczi expands the symbols of pallus and vagina into cosmic symbols, not by …

Cause of death: too much Haeckel

2 stars

I get it. It must've been quite interesting and influential during its time.

But it isn't anymore. If anything, this serves as an archetypal example of the worst ways of deriving theoretical conclusions from psychoanalysis (or importing conclusions from other fields into it).