Firm boundaries’, ‘autonomous egos’ and recognisable gender
identities (gender identities become the
central part of being, the ‘privileged site in which the truth of ourselves is
to be found’)
Most psychoanalytic literature is a contemporary version of the
etiquette book; improving our internal manners, advising us on our best sexual
behaviour (usually called maturity, or mental health).
It
is indeed, dismaying how quickly psychoanalysis has become the science of the
sensible passions; as though its aim was to make people more intelligible to
themselves rather than to realise and accept how strange they are.
When psychoanalysis
makes too much sense, or makes sense of too much, it turns into exactly the
symptom it is trying to cure: defensive knowingness.
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