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Many people spend their lives re-creating their first familial relationships, often to their own detriment.

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It was Saturday night and she was a friend of a friend of a friend.

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This is not a fair characterization of psychoanalysis as the purpose of analysis is precisely the opposite. That is, rather than attempting to transform the banalities of bourgeois life into mystified objects of desire, the analyst aims at exposing how these object of desire are just projections onto banality.

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The psychoanalyst who works in reverse would tell you, “I don’t really know anything.  That suspicion you have that I know something, that I might be able to let you in on some secret, well that is your sickness itself.  All you need do is realize that I have nothing to tell you and you’ll be free.”

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What I was looking for out on the dirt roads, in those alleys, was not some bedrock foundation from which to launch an attack on the unreality of my everyday life, but a way to break the boundary between nature and culture. To put this in Marxist language, my goal was to overcome alienation.