Transience and the prohibition of “Don’t Look” - Osamu Kitayama

Talks On Psychoanalysis by International Psychoanalytical Association

Mar 3, 202623:12Science & Medicine

"What happens when we accept that impermanence is not a loss, but the very essence of life? In psychoanalysis, transience is often associated with mourning and the capacity to renew oneself. Inspired by Freud's 1916 essa...

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