I post this in http://www.egroups.com/messages/akhnaton where some readers wonder what is my position regarding ‘Psychoanalysis’. And at: [log in to unmask] a eList where some psychoanalysts express a guilt perplexity lately. ------------------------------- Robert M. Galatzer-Levy wrote: >Although I have devoted a great deal of time >to trying to bring a scientific point of view to >psychoanalysis Howard D. Eisman wrote about Psychoanalysis >Many of us are trying to stop it from dying. I don’t know if M.Galatzer has tried to bring psychoanalysis to a scientific point of view (instead of bringing a scientific point of view to it). For any scientific point of view that will be brought to psychoanalysis will kill it – at least currently. For currently Psychoanalysis is still operated by Renaissance Doctorship (i.e. doctors who are looking at things that they call myth, as their former doctorship was looking at celestial bodies as spirits or anima). Renaissance doctors at work had to prevent any belief that the celestial bodies were made of matter. Today we have late Velikovky who demonstrated (and published by 1960) that Oedipus was Akhnaton (i.e. an historical, objective body); Renaissance Psychoanalysts still ignore the fact. They are like historians who would see the Nazi mass killing as a myth (they repress the drama that happened in Amarna/Oedipus kingship). We have even Freud who brought Moses so close to Akhnaton, while his followers choose to keep a Middle-Age mentality (and continue to analyse monotheism without looking at the myth they made of its ‘leader’ - what a complex!). In fact, they prove that the theory was right which warns that as soon as the Unconscious shows in a breach (as Freud acting his opening), resistance will assault on it and close it with ‘asoterism’ (a symptom of intellectualism). Then of course such esoteric psychoanalysis will die when a scientific point of view will be brought over it. In counterpart a scientific psychoanalysis will be and live healthy with notions as Moses and Oedipus historically identified - as well as other crucial notions: Studies of chemistry will also make psychoanalysis as a living science when prohibition, still upheld with inquisition doctors, will be clarified so that the role of drugs and cocain in civilization and Freud’s thinking will be scientifically managed. And thirdly Freud’s libido theory will be welcomed by geneticists who need a sound reflection about reproduction. And this will also come when psychoanalysts will cease grounding libido in a mythology. So if something is dying in terms of psychoanalysis, this is just its Renaissance Inquisition Resistance form. -------------------------------------------- Dr. William Theaux [log in to unmask] eMail Psychotherapy & Plural Analysis http://www.dnafoundation.com Personal Historian [log in to unmask] http://home.att.net/~w.theaux/ Dr. Theaux is a psychiatrist, ecologist and restorer of the doctrine of the Art of Memory. He has been affiliated with the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis and the Foundation of Plural Analysis, studying the mystery surrounding the three stages of the life of Akhnaton, who lived about 1000BCE (http://www.akhnaton.com). He has coined the name CYBEK, a Cybernetic concept which describes the state of Plural Analysis (http://home.att.net/~cybek/PluralAnalysis.htm). ------------------------------------------