"The neurotic is an ill person who is treated by speech, above all his own speech.

He must speak, recount, explain himself.

Freud defined psychoanalysis as the subject’s assumption of his own history, insofar as this history is constituted by the words addressed to another person.

Psychoanalysis is the realm of speech, there is no other remedy.”

Jacques Lacan, Panorama, 1974

“The burning desire for the expression of love is just the admission that anxiety lies at the bottom . . . anxiety about the possibility of change.”

— Kierkegaard

me telling every person i meet "your mom"

“Addiction is the root of the symptom which is made from the reiteration of the same One.

It is the same, in the sense that it can’t be added up. One never gets to: ‘I’ve had three drinks, so that’s enough now’. One always downs the same drink, once more.

It was in this sense that Lacan said the symptom is an etcetera, the return of the same event.”

Alexandre Stevens, New Lacanian School - NLS, Fixation and Repetition

Videobet Shorts: EP 5

Come see the film they're talking about tomorrow, Friday November 7th.
Abbas Kiarostami's 'Close-Up' will conclude our series 'The Roads of Abbas Kiarostami'.
See you there!

Production: @videobet
Producers: @bezahailulemma @bonny_tes @band_yimenu
Directors: @yanetawi @davethebombastic
Writers: @davethebombastic @yanetawi
Cast: @_classickal @joanna_gbek @dungbeetlejuice
DoP: @yanetawi
1st AC: @mpregmafia_00
2nd AC @also_known_as_jude
Gaffer: @also_known_as_jude
Grip: @mpregmafia_00
Sound: @davethebombastic
Color: @rasraey
PA: @mpregmafia_00 @bizarre.55

Watch Here: https://youtu.be/CNtJrircaNo?si=3a6sgnjnnuptPltk

A Letter From Freud to the Mother of a homosexual (1935):

Dear Mrs. [Erased]

I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. I am most impressed by the fact, that you do not mention this term yourself in your information about him. May I question you why you avoid it? Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.) It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime and cruelty too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

By asking me if I can help, you mean, I suppose, if I can abolish homosexuality and make normal heterosexuality take its place. The answer is, in a general way, we cannot promise to achieve this. In a certain number of cases we succeed in developing the blighted germs of heterosexual tendencies, which are present in every homosexual; in the majority of cases it is no more possible. It is a question of the quality and the age of the individual. The result of treatment cannot be predicted.

What analysis can do for your son runs in a different line. If he is unhappy, neurotic, torn by conflicts, inhibited in his social life, analysis may bring him harmony, peace of mind, full efficiency, whether he remains a homosexual or gets changed. If you make up your mind he should have analysis with me—I don’t expect you will—, he has to come over to Vienna. I have no intention of leaving here. However, don’t neglect to give me your answer.

Sincerely yours with best wishes,
Freud