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From Melanie Klein, The Psycho-analysis of Children -- The form in which interpretation is given is another thing of great importance. It should be modelled on the concrete way in which children think and speak. Peter, it will be remembered, pointed to the swing and said: 'Look how it dangles and bumps'. And so when I answered: 'That's how Daddy's and Mummy's thingummies bumped together', he took it in without the slightest difficulty. To take another instance: Rita (aged two and three-quarters) told me that the dolls had disturbed her in her sleep; they kept on saying to Hans, the underground train man (a male doll on wheels): 'Just go on driving your train along'. On another occasion she put a triangular brick on one side and said: 'That's a little woman'; she then took 'a little hammer', as she called another long-shaped brick, and hit the brick-box with it exactly in a place where it was only stuck together with paper, so that she made a hole in it. She said: 'When the hammer hit hard, the little woman was so frightened'. Running the underground train and hitting with the hammer stood for coitus between her parents, which she had witnessed till she was nearly two years old. My interpretation, 'Your Daddy hit hard like that inside your Mummy with his little hammer, and you were so frightened', fitted in exactly with her way of thinking and speaking. Tags: humor, psychoanalysis, theory
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I don't know whether you're proffering this as evidence that psychoanlysis is more a means of imposition than interpretation, or evidence that psychoanalysis has the ability to "penetrate" the truth of a memory/situation.
Personally, I think the answer is BOTH. PSychoanalysis, in CONJUNCTION with logical deduction, has enabled me to pierce the REALITY of others' inner-life (thoughts). Recent example:
While at work on sunday, I CORRECTLY "caught" my co-worker cheating on his girlfriend--on his lunch break, an amusing story in itself--using both psychoanalytic theories and logical deduction. First, the deductive part: there's some girl who works at the front desk (we work at a gatehouse that's the first point of access to a hotel), who he had told me he was attracted to and who the preceding day (in a strangely uncharacteristic fashion) proposed driving down to the gatehouse HERSELF and giving us a sheet they didn't fax us, but my co-worker had already left to DRIVE up there himself.
The subsequent day, my co-worker took his lunch-break; about 40 minutes into the period of time he was gone (a total of about an hour), the GIRL from the previous day (Who is about his age) RETURNS from her lunch break. WE at the guardhouse are required to wave at vehicles entering, and when I waved at this girls something was DIFFERENT about her demeanor than usual; putting this fact together with the events of the preceding day AND a bit of INTUITION†, I reasoned that they had had a tryst.
When I confronted him with it--and the key is to do it in an INFORMAL manner, so the strategies that most people derive for dealing with ritual/formal scenarios, such as "the accusation" are impeded--he started breathing heavily, a sure sign of anxiety. I nailed his ass; he admitted it shortly thereafter.
†This is why psychoanalysis doesn't appeal to the mainstream, which demands cold facts/data. I, personally, find intuition to be as epistemologically valid as logic, but I think it's been stigmatized politically, given that WOMEN, in particular, are so good with it; thus, invalidating intuition gives men (who lean toward logic and such things) an advantage/POWER over them--legally, professionally, academically....watch that movie Sex, Lies and videotape; at one point in the flick, Andie MaxDowell's character KNOWS that her husband (played by Peter Gallagher is cheating (and he really is) but she can't PROVE it because her "rationale" is intuitive, which enables him to duck the accusation:
GALLAGHER: [some hyper-deductive denial]
MACDOWELL: Always the fucking lawyer.
GALLAGHER: Well your goddamn right, i mean: could you imagine presenting a case to a judge saying "i just KNOW he's guilty, your honor; i just have a feeling..."
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IN fact, the character Graham in Sex, Lies in Videotape justifies my belief in bald, blatant honesty, too. The character never lies, and nothing all that bad happens; so some people may get weirded out by his "project," if they're so werided out as to refuse to associate with him, so be it. It's probably better to have relations with somebody predicated on transparency and truth than lies, which mandate "performance" of some kind.
.....admittedly, my admiration for the character ULTIMATELY stems from my identifying with him, probably, which relates to that post you made a few days ago.
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