What Is Psychoanalysis?
A Crash Course Inspired by a Holiday Party Convo
17 min readDec 20, 2017
“On the one hand, psychoanalysis is practical in the sense that there is an attempt to solve a problem, or to cure somebody, or at least to address their suffering. But the other thing that psychoanalysis does is that the project is to enable somebody to speak. It’s the attempt to create the conditions in which somebody can speak themselves…
