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Marie Balmary
Marie Balmary (born about 1939) is a French psychoanalyst and essayist. In addition to her therapeutic practice, she studies the Bible and Greek mythology with groups of scholars using psychoanalytic theory and, in return, questioning its foundations. She is a Clinical psychology, clinical psychologist with university training, a psychoanalyst with Jacques Lacan, Lacanian training and a researcher. Education Balmary's doctoral thesis devoted to the relationship between Freudian theory and Sigmund Freud, Freud 's family history having been refused before defense; she published it in 1979 under the title ''L'Homme aux statues: Freud et la faute cachée du père,'' or ''The Man with Statues:'' ''Freud and the hidden fault of the father'' . In this work, she revisits Freudian theory based on a reading of the myth of Oedipus, which includes the story of Oedipus' father and the Etymology, etymological consideration of the words and names of these stories and a study of their relationshi ...
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PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious processes and their influence on conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on dream interpretation, psychoanalysis is also a talk therapy method for treating of mental disorders."All psychoanalytic theories include the idea that unconscious thoughts and feelings are central in mental functioning." Milton, Jane, Caroline Polmear, and Julia Fabricius. 2011. ''A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis''. SAGE. p. 27."What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might be considered an unfortunately abbreviated description, Freud said that anyone who recognizes transference and resistance is a psychoanalyst, even if he comes to conclusions other than his own. … I prefer to think of the analytic situation more broadly, as one in which someone seeking help tries to ...
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