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Psychoanalysis is a talking cure that is always located in a particular kind of language, the language of the culture that the psychoanalyst needs to have an awareness of in order to practise. The cure requires that there be some sense that things are unconscious to us, pushed out of awareness and kept at bay because they disturb and threaten to undermine what we think makes us happy, and such things also circulate in culture. Freud homed in on what was most disturbing: sexuality as the most intimate core of who we are and around which we construct hosts of fantasies about how we might love others and find satisfaction in that love. However, one of the lessons of psychoanalysis is that what appears to be most ‘intimate’ is rooted in our relations with others.
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Parker, I. (2012). Freud’s Culture. In: Gülerce, A. (eds) Re(con)figuring Psychoanalysis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373303_3
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