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The Mystery of the Mind: Freud and the Intellectual Universe of Psychoanalysis
Where does our psychological distress come from?
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Wang Fang: How Could We Be Absent from the Search for the Mind’s Mysteries? Cui Qinglong: Find and Understand Yourself Through These Magical Kaleidoscopes Yang Zhao: To Understand Modernity, Begin with These Thinkers 0. An Anxious Age and Profound Unease: What Can Psychoanalysis Offer Us? 1. Psychoanalysis Between General Psychology and Psychiatry 2. Are We All “Patients” to Different Degrees? 3. Freud at the Fin de Siècle: When Everything Ordered Was Slowly Decaying 4. From Nation-State to Romanticism: How Do Individuals Express Feeling Within the Collective? 5. Repression, Release, Guilt: An Age of “Civilization” or an Age of “Patients”? 6. What Can Uncontrollable Dreams Tell Us? 7. Why Can’t You Remember What Your Office Ceiling Looks Like? 8. After You Leave Work, Do Your Desk and Chair Still “Exist”? 9. Do Sexual Impulses Really Begin Only at Puberty? 10. What Is Locked in Your Psychological Dungeon? 11. Dark Side or Light Side: What Determines Personality? 12. Association: The Sequence of Memory and the Key to Analyzing Dreams 13. Castration Anxiety and Phallic Worship: How Do We Understand Gender? 14. What Does It Mean When Childhood Experience Appears in Dreams? 15. Do the Causes of Mental Illness Exist in Everyone’s Body? 16. Does Hypnosis Summon Another Hidden Side of Us? 17. How Did Freud Foresee the Coming of World War? 18. Does Genuine Desire Always Appear in Disguise? 19. In What Sense Is Psychoanalysis “Scientific”? 20. High Art and the Sex Industry: How Did Vienna’s Contradictions Produce Psychoanalysis? 21. Is Every Other Repression Merely a Transformation of Sexual Repression? 22. Are the Deepest Secrets Actually the Easiest to Reveal? 23. Is “Understanding” a Cause the Best “Treatment”? 24. How Should We Face Our Dark Side? 25. What Happens When Two Opposing Desires Coexist? 26. Does the “Latent Dream” Communicate Our Most Forbidden Desires? 27. Have You Been Shaped by the “Hegemony” of Narrative Method? 28. After Freud, Can Literature Stop Serving “Meaning”? 29. Can Disagreeing with Freud’s Pansexualism Let Us Escape Freud? 30. You Can Never Again Remove Your “Freudian” Glasses 31. Jung as Successor: Did Freud Choose Wrong? 32. Persona Theory: A Hurt Little Boy’s Self-Protection? 33. The Other Within: Inhumanity, Fear, and Good Mixed with Evil 34. The Devil Is Myself: Rereading Faust 35. Analytical Psychology: Is Experience More Important Than Science? 36. Jung’s Psychological Types: The Inspiration for MBTI 37. Is a Psychiatric Patient Someone with a Richer Inner World? 38. Must a Therapist First “Become the Patient” to Treat One? 39. Must We Leave Science to Reach the Second Personality? 40. “Experience,” Not “Analysis”: Enter Your Own Myth 41. Are Extrovert and Introvert the First and Second Personalities of One Person? 42. Western History from Above: A Struggle Between Introverted and Extraverted Types? 43. Nominalism vs. Realism: Does Good Exist as an Original Principle? 44. Jung’s Ambition: Can Psychology Become the King of Disciplines? 45. Beginning with Fantasy: Freud’s and Adler’s Psychological Types 46. Type Imbalance and Fantasy Compensation: Why Do Adults Stop Playing Games? 47. Modern Civilization’s Psychic Wound: Why Do We “Fall Ill” in Collective Society? 48. How Did the Rational French Revolution Turn to Violence and Terror? 49. Prejudice Alongside Equality: Gender Consciousness in Psychoanalysis 50. Is There No Pure Man and No Pure Woman? 51. Rescuing the Repressed Self: Symbolic Treatment and Creative Fantasy 52. Meaning Patterns: What Is Your Earliest Memory? 53. Adler: Are Dreams a Sign of Emerging Psychological Problems? 54. What Makes a “Good” Pattern of Meaning? 55. Egocentricity: Why Are We Reluctant to Cooperate? 56. Alzheimer’s Disease: An Organic Condition Psychoanalysis Cannot Explain? 57. An “Unscientific” Suggestion: Can Listening to Programs Prevent Alzheimer’s? 58. Does Everyone Have a Physical Inferiority? 59. What Psychological Goal Lies Behind Bed-Wetting? 60. Adler in Dialogue with Mencius: What Little Separates Humans from Beasts 61. Which Is More Closely Related to Love, Sexual Desire or Security? 62. How Can Empathy Give Socially Anxious People Security? 63. Is Love a Means of Exercising Power and Control? 64. You Have to Leave Home to Grow Up? Too Late! 65. Is Motherhood Natural? 66. The Family as a Field of Power Formed Around Children’s Needs 67. Are Unhealthy Family Relations a Breeding Ground for Crime? 68. What Kind of School Education Do We Need? 69. Is School Meant to Remake the “Defective Products” of Family Education? 70. Must Joining a Group Mean Conforming to Everyone Else? 71. Adler’s Limitation: An Individual Psychology Without the “Individual” 72. “Having” or “Being”? Fromm’s Two Modes of Character 73. Is Capitalism Responsible for Replacing “Being” with “Having”? 74. How Does Capitalism’s “Human Market” Cancel Our Freedom? 75. “Hunger for Love”: The Vicious Cycle of Losing the Mode of Being 76. From “Pursuing Freedom” to “Escaping Freedom”: What Happened in the Twentieth Century? 77. Does Freedom Make Us Lonelier? Negative and Positive Freedom 78. Are the Most Controlling Authorities Also the Most Eager to Submit? 79. “It’s for Your Own Good”: Distinguishing Responsibility from Control 80. Does the Economic Base Determine the Psyche? Fromm and German Historical Sociology 81. From the Middle Ages to Capitalism: How Did Freedom as a Commodity Create Anxiety? 82. “Free People Who Surrender Freedom”: The Psychology of Escape 83. Social Self and Conformity: See a Queue and Want to Join It? 84. Must People Work? The Protestant Ethic and the Value of Labor 85. Not Wanting Work but Unable to Live Without It: Where Does Capitalist Work Anxiety Come From? 86. Nazism Is Not Far Away: From Anxiety and Loneliness to Inhuman Authority 87. Fromm vs. Adler: Is the “Normal Person” Successfully Integrated into Society the Sickest of All? 88. An Ever-Growing System and Ever-Smaller Individuals: Capitalism’s Social Pathology 89. What Can We Do in an Age of Conformity Ruled by the Internet and Capital? 90. Marcuse: Was Freud Actually a Philosopher? 91. Delayed Gratification: The Origin of Civilization and the Cost of Growing Up 92. Surplus Repression: Does Civilization Need to Repress Us So Severely? 93. “Make Love, Not War”: A Textbook for the Rebellious Youth of the 1960s 94. Has Civilization Made Humanity the “Living Dead”? 95. What Comes After “Killing the Father”? Retelling Civilization Through Parricide and Incest 96. Double Guilt: How Did Humans Willingly Become Working Animals? 97. Does Civilization Mean “Never a Moment’s Peace”? 98. Is History a Cycle That Keeps Getting Worse? 99. Alienated Leisure: Is Your Weekend Only for Reproducing Labor Power? 100. The Death Drive: An Impulse to Return to the Womb? 101. Civilization and Destruction Together: Repressing Eros and Indulging the Death Drive 102. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: A Story of Desire and Repression 103. As Civilization Develops, Does It Loosen Its Own Rules? 104. Is Civilization Not the Product but the Legend of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl? 105. Civilization’s Vicious Cycle: The More We Produce, the More We Are Repressed 106. Wonderful Music, Bizarre Libretto: What Is Mozart’s The Magic Flute About? 107. Art Allows Civilization—and the Script—to Survive 108. Art Means “Seeing Another Possibility” Beyond Reality 109. Is a Civilization Without Alienation Possible? 110. Liberate Many Desires and Refuse to Be a One-Dimensional Person 111. Psychoanalysis, Marxism, and Structuralism: How Was Lacan Made? 112. From Linguistics to Anthropology: Seeking Basic Laws Beneath Phenomena 113. The Structuralist Controversy: Is an Unchanging Structure God in Disguise? 114. Reinterpreting Dreams Through Signifier and Signified 115. What Happened the First Time You Looked in a Mirror? 116. Why Do the French Seem So “Philosophical”? Atheism and Paris After the Franco-Prussian War 117. “A Psychiatrist Who Infiltrated the Art World”: How Did Parisian Art Redirect Lacan? 118. Was Lacan Really Thrown Out of the Conference Where He Presented Mirror Theory? 119. Expelled from the Society? Never Mind—Start Your Own School! 120. Does Forgetting Simply Mean “Not Remembering”? Rethinking Memory and Forgetting 121. Rethinking the Subject: Does the “Subject” Still Exist in a Dream? 122. Is Descartes’s “Subject” Actually a “Slave”? 123. Can Public Science Reach the Personal System of Desire and Meaning? 124. Why Did Lacan Prefer Seminars to Writing Books? 125. The Subject Founded on Misrecognition and the Beginning of Narcissism 126. Mother as the “Little Other”: “So I Can Control This Person Called Mom!” 127. Is a Woman’s Earliest Love Object Also a Woman? 128. The Hidden Connection Among Father, Phallus, and the Order of Language 129. “Need” Can Be Satisfied; “Desire” Never Is 130. “You Need Him to Need You”: Hysteria and Excessive Love 131. From “Excavation” to “Creation”: Language Gives Desire Its Order (Finale) Lin Yihan’s Cry for Help Hidden in Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise | Bonus 1 Yang Zhao × Jiarui × DY: Are We All “Mentally Ill”? | Bonus 2, Livestream Audio Why Isn’t Psychoanalysis a Branch of Psychology? | Bonus 3 Yang Zhao × Jiarui × DY: Understanding the Paris Olympics Through Art, Philosophy, and History | Bonus 4 Reasonable Astrology: Another Way to Solve the “Mystery of the Mind” | Video Seminar Introduction