I've been exploring the origins of the 'relational turn' in psychoanalysis that began after WWII and ramped up in the 1970s. Psychoanalysis got vastly more interesting after Freud and I had no idea!
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#412I've been exploring the origins of the 'relational turn' in psychoanalysis that began after WWII and ramped up in the 1970s. Psychoanalysis got vastly more interesting after Freud and I had no idea!
Nice! What are you reading?
I'm currently reading a lot of Robert Langs, who was a big deal in the 70s but now seems largely forgotten.
Besides that, Winnicott, Bion (not that I understand him), some Thomas Ogden, a whole lot of Harold Searles, a bit of Bollas, Linda Hopkins's incredible biography of Masud Khan, other stuff I'm forgetting right now.
Where do your interests lie?
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You'd think I'd feel differently having seven parrots, but you may be surprised to find I agree with you. To an extent anyway. I struggle with it. Don't bring a parrot into captivity from the wild. Separating them from the life they already know is cruel -- save for medical exceptions, after which you release them back. But it's already been done, and we have domesticated parrots. They are raised by humans, hand-fed…
Thank you for clarifying and thank you for looking after the rescues! I don't remember where I read it, but there was an interesting case for pairing abandoned parrots with veterans and people suffering from PTSD. Both suffer in similar ways, and were able to reduce their struggles together. Could have been Bessel van der Kolk who mentioned it.
I have them to thank. On that same train of thought they saved me too :)
I believe it. In some parrots there is a look in their eye when they are scared of you. It's as though they're looking right past you, even though you're the fearful stimulus.
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Wow, I've had an interest in the history of note-taking but that is a huge list. Have you read all those books? Do you have a top 5?
Yeah, this subject is a bit of a rabbit hole. I've read about half of the so far. That's my list of sources from those that I have so far. I would say start with: * The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen (This is a fast micro history that hits the highlights.) * Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age by Ann M. Blair (She is a scholar that has a lot on the subject.…
Thanks for taking the time, I appreciate it. If you write anything on the topic I'd be interested in reading it.
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#415Not today, but the day before I launched my 2nd attempt at making chocolate from cocoa pods. The 1st time, the fermentation failed and I just got rotten seeds in a pot.
That's super cool. Good luck!
~I watched a video series where someone did the techniques in isolation in reverse order and I thought it was a good idea. That way you're always learning on perfect ingredients. i.e. buy chips and learn to temper, then buy roasted nibs and learn to refine, then buy dried and learn to roast, then buy pods and learn to ferment and dry.~
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#416I found out that reading 900 wpm and actually comprehending what you are reading is actually possible and not that difficult at all.
may you give any tips?
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#417Reading up on the history of information management, and the real killer app for paper was double-entry bookkeeping, which made Venice rich and contributed to starting the Renaissance.
I was digging around my home state of Indiana's marriage records from the 1800s as part of my ongoing genealogy hobby when I came across the absolutely brilliant way they indexed information. The marriages were recorded sequentially, and that index number was written in special alphabetically tagged pages with the grooms surname and the page number. The brides surname was used as well.
Generally a new book was stared in each county each year.
So, even if there were an error in the indexing, generally you could find a record in 3 operations, doing an exhaustive search was quite unlikely.
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Nice! What are you reading?
I'm currently reading a lot of Robert Langs, who was a big deal in the 70s but now seems largely forgotten. Besides that, Winnicott, Bion (not that I understand him), some Thomas Ogden, a whole lot of Harold Searles, a bit of Bollas, Linda Hopkins's incredible biography of Masud Khan, other stuff I'm forgetting right now. Where do your interests lie?
I never heard of Robert Langs nor Masud Khan before, thanks!
Let me appropriate something I heard Jean Allouch (fantastic guy, died some 2 years ago) say:
"What interests me is madness and the way of welcoming it, which is called psychoanalysis."
I used to say I practice lacanian psychoanalysis, but more and more (thanks to exchange with colleagues, seminars and so on) I have been trying to expand my knowledge.
Just like you discovered, there are so many great ideas and authors which were simply forgotten. It's a tough path to walk!