yea i assumed not, they're fairly rare nowadays and have to be sought out (and are very expensive)
which is all the more weird he's doing like oedipus complex shit that's completely orthogonal 😭😭😭
what an odd chap
wait was he trying to do like some variation of psychoanalysis? i don't see how that could ever be successful (or at least would be extremely challenging) without 1) heavy buy-in 2) extreme time commitment kids are likely not to have or desire 3) a long time horizon
i should look more into discussions of classical psychoanalysists and their opinions on best ages they think it would be relevant for.. seems interesting
girl who’s used to taking online quizzes made by teenagers in their basement: hey this quiz that has the better part of a century of academic psychological research backing it up feels a little different for some reason…
will you just play along? when i signed up for the fearful avoidant bpd girl i was promised compliance and its just not panning out. wonder what the return policy is
yeah i’ve read lewis and wasn’t terribly inspired, but it was a good enough presentation of the main points. haven’t gotten around to o’brien yet! thanks for the reminder :)
my succinct solution is the abolition of patriarchy, capitalism, and the state, although i imagine that’s not the answer you’re looking for and would prefer some positive prescription for a drop-in replacement for the family as an institution.
we could talk about interesting alternative kinship models and their relative merits or any other particularity, but the issue is that it’s a fundamental restructuring of childhood and its place in society, and so would involve an incredibly broad range of explication and contextual specification
ig it’s hard when you can’t just yoink the location as a title (“the US capital incident” doesn’t hit the same as “hiroshima” or “pearl harbor” or “tiananmen square”)
i wonder how much time passed before ppl decided to give up and settle for “the war of 1812”