Reader Beware

I told my analyst that I was writing short posts about psychoanalysis and she expressed caution against my doing so on the grounds that I am inexperienced. Though I agree with her re my inexperience, I do not agree with her regarding a prohibition. I would prefer to write something and be wrong than to write nothing at all. That being said I will leave it to you the reader to decide upon your level of engagement: in other words: don’t take my word for it. I am enrolled in grad school for psychoanalysis, immersed in the material and attending analysis but I remain a mere student. I do not, for instance, have the ability yet to write clinical work. On the other hand anyone with a library card and the internet can grapple with the theoretical aspect of psychoanalysis; the barrier to entry is just a lot of reading. I shudder to think how much reading I have to do. And yet no mere literature can circumscribe the human experience. That I am immersed in my own experience, day after day, ceaselessly pulsing within me in endless waves of sensory impressions and raw feeling is more to the point; I am my own best witness of the human organism. So under the auspices of beginner’s mind I am beginning to explore the labyrinth planet of Psychoanalysis; Spacewhy is an attempt to log the dispatches from these alien corridors (that is our own psyche). It is in the nature of this environment to be confusing; it’s easy to get lost; I’m trying to navigate as best I can. You’ve been warned. Thank you for reading.