By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (UCLA), M.A. (Counseling Psychology, University for Humanistic Studies), Dean, School of Counseling and Tantra.
Freudian analysis prepares you to accept your internal tendencies and work their expression into a social façade. It also helps Freudian Analysts prosper financially.
Freudians believe you fear punishment for impulses and fantasies you had as a child. Your impulses, say the Freudians, come from your unconscious desire to rival and kill your parent of the same sex for the physical intimacy of your parent of the opposite sex, and your also unconscious fear that your parent of the same sex will kill you, so you cannot, if you’re male, displace him in your mother’s affection. If you’re female, you unconsciously desire, said Freud, to kill your mom and become your dad’s lover.
Your fear leads you to hide (repress) these thoughts from yourself. You, without knowing it, displace your hidden attitudes toward your parents onto other people to whom you react as though they were stand—ins for your parents.
Your fear leads you to hide (repress) these thoughts from yourself. You, without knowing it, displace your hidden attitudes toward your parents onto other people to whom you react as though they were stand—ins for your parents.
If you are female, you are also, according to Freud, jealous of males’ sexual organs. You repress this because you fear punishment for fantasies built on this jealousy. You symbolically attempt to attain a penis by adult assertiveness.
Contemplate your relationships with your parental figures when you were 3 to 5 years old. Ask yourself if you were or were not attracted to your parent of the opposite sex and competitive with your parent of the same sex as you for the attention of your opposite parent.
THERAPEUTIC GOALS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: ACCEPTANCE OF SEXUAL URGES AND FEELINGS TOWARD AUTHORITY FIGURES; REALISTIC, SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE EXPRESSION OF AGGRESSIVE AND SEXUAL URGES
Freudians set the following GOALS for you:
CREATE CONSCIOUSNESS: Make your unconscious conscious.
REALIZE YOUR RESISTANCE: Learn how you avoid experiencing your unconscious.
ACCEPT YOUR DEEP SEXUAL IMPULSES AND FANTASIES.
REALIZE HOW YOU REACT TO AUTHORITY FIGURES ON THE BASIS OF YOUR CHILDISH SEXUAL FANTASIES (TRANSFERENCE)
RATIONALLY CONTROL YOUR IMPULSES.
FREE YOURSELF FROM FEELING TOO GUILTY.
EXPRESS SEXUAL IMPULSES CONSCIOUSLY, CREATIVELY, AND REALISTICALLY, IN SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE WAYS (SUBLIMATE).
COMPROMISE YOUR SELFISH INNER NEEDS SO YOU CAN GET ALONG WITH OTHERS.
END DISCOMFORTS such as …those associated with anxiety (fear without a conscious reason to feel fear), …depression (enduring sad sense of loss), …phobia (intense fear in certain situations unthreatening to others), …obsession (recurrent frightening thoughts), and …compulsion (irresistible impulses to repeat certain acts)
ACCEPTANCE OF CONVENTIONAL FEMALE ROLE: If you are a woman, the facade advocated by classical psychoanalysis for you is docile acceptance of a traditional role. You are encouraged to be non—assertive, marry, obey your husband, bear children (especially male children to make up for your not having a penis), and have vaginal rather than clitoral orgasms. These misogynistic Freudian role prescriptions can be harmful to you if you are pursuing non—traditional roles. Insisting that your orgasms are “immature” is likewise harmful.
In Freudian Psychoanalysis, you are basically bad and selfish, the sex fantasies you had as a child affect you the rest of your life, you may not know why you react as you do, and men should be the bosses at home.
SAMPLE A METHOD OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: FREE ASSOCIATION, DREAM, RESISTANCE, AND TRANSFERENCE INTERPRETATION: Do-It-With-A-Partner Exercise
Be alone with your listener for an hour in a quiet, comfortable room. Lie on a couch. Have your listener sit out of sight and turn on a tape recorder. Follow these directions for exactly 50 minutes.
Have your listener read the directions below to you, and allow plenty of time for him or her to sit quietly just out of your sight.
Your partner says, “Say whatever comes into your consciousness. ” But he or she says nothing at all during most of the sessions.
The listening partner should remain silent, take notes, and stay out of sight. The listener may say, “Yes,” “Interesting,” “I see,” or” Uh-Huh” not more than a total of six times during the 50 minutes.
At the end of 50 minutes, the listener says, “Time’s up.”
(Do not be a listening partner for the same person who was your listener. In Freud’s system, the free associator does not become the listener.)
Listen to your tape later for pauses, recurring themes, and slips of the tongue. Write a dozen keywords based on the tape.
Tape record another 50 minutes of your free associations to each of your key words. Listen to this tape for patterns.
ANALYSIS OF TRANSFERENCE
Your listener speaks little and reveals as little as possible about himself or herself so that you react to him or her as though he or she were your parent (transference).
At first, said Freud, you displace good feelings toward your parents toward him or her (positive transference).
Then you project aspects of your parents you disliked onto him or her (negative transference).
Together, you and your pho-analyst interpret the underlying childhood sexual conflicts, leading you to react to authority figures as though they were your parents. When you accept the reality of these infantile conflicts, you stop confusing your parents with your analyst. Then your therapy is over. You know how to wear your mask, and you also know the impulses, from deep in your past, that it.
Repeat this sample procedure two times a week for 5 years at the current rate of Freudian Analysis. After that, you’ll be able to get along, but not rock the boat of state. Is that what you want?
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