dat thing freud made

“Re­li­gion is an at­tempt to get con­trol over the sen­so­ry world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have de­vel­oped in­side us as a re­sult of bi­o­log­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal ne­ces­si­ties. But it can­not achieve its end. Its doc­trines car­ry with them the stamp of the times in which they orig­i­nat­ed, the ig­no­rant child­hood days of the hu­man race. Its con­so­la­tions de­serve no trust. Ex­pe­ri­ence teach­es us that the world is not a nurs­ery. The eth­i­cal com­mands, to which re­li­gion seeks to lend its weight, re­quire some oth­er foun­da­tions in­stead, for hu­man so­ci­ety can­not do with­out them, and it is dan­ger­ous to link up obe­di­ence to them with re­li­gious be­lief. If one at­tempts to as­sign to re­li­gion its place in hu­man evo­lu­tion, it seems not so much to be a last­ing ac­qui­si­tion, as a par­al­lel to the neu­ro­sis which the civ­i­lized in­di­vid­ual must pass through on his way from child­hood to maturity.”
—Sig­mund Freud (1856–1939)

 
Mod­ern psychology,
es­pe­cial­ly where it in­ter­sects with self-help and trau­ma work,
is a beau­ti­ful thing. 

I’m not talk­ing about, ‘pull your­self up by your boot­straps and work hel­la hard with end­less re­gard for cap­i­tal­ism and your life will change,’ self-help. 

I’m talk­ing about the dirty, dirty work of re­al­ly pick­ing apart how the events in your life have shaped you into who you are, de­ter­min­ing if you like that per­son, fig­ur­ing out if you can be you but health­i­er, con­tex­tu­al­iz­ing the mis­treat­ment in your life so you can let it go. That self-help. 

It can be done from a spir­i­tu­al place, but to me, the good parts of the spir­i­tu­al (by which I mean the spir­i­tu­al not per­vert­ed to cre­ate more tox­i­c­i­ty) can be backed by the sci­en­tif­ic. For ex­am­ple, in­ter­gen­er­a­tional trau­ma is the idea that you car­ry in your body and your ex­pe­ri­ence the things that hap­pened to your par­ents, their par­ents, and their par­ents, as far back as 12 gen­er­a­tions. And sure enough, it would seem trau­ma does not only al­ter how your genes ex­press them­selves, but
this will also car­ry on to your chil­dren and so on.

The more we un­der­stand the brain, the more com­pas­sion we learn to have for oth­ers and ourselves. 

In such a short span – just mere decades – we have gone from very in­ten­sive, pa­tron­iz­ing, and not par­tic­u­lar­ly com­pas­sion­ate mod­els of men­tal health care be­ing the core of the field, to writ­ers like Sam Dy­lan Finch be­ing able to dis­cuss his life with BPD and ED, be­cause now we get that these ill­ness­es are treat­able with com­pas­sion and pa­tient-cen­tered care. 

It’s by no means across the board progress, but it’s also still mas­sive when com­pared to just how things were han­dled in the 1960s and 70s. 

Those in my life to­day who take men­tal and re­la­tion­al well­ness se­ri­ous­ly are beau­ti­ful souls who in­spire me to do better.

Freud could only re­flect the re­pressed sex­u­al­i­ty of the world around him. Tho that was the start­ing point for today’s knowl­edge and dialogue.

And it’s crazy that the rea­son we have this field of study is be­cause Freud was ob­sessed with in­cest, dicks, and butts.
 
 

—mel­ony ppenosyne

Flom­mist Mel­ony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s trav­eled to Vir­ginia as a com­pet­ing poet, co-writ­ten a play on men­tal ill­ness that is present­ly be­ing pro­duced, and craft­ed a pub­lished es­say check­ing the priv­i­lege and scope of art gal­leries. Copy­right © 2019 Mel­ony Ppenosyne. Pic­tured: Freud by Dalì (cropped), source.

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