Author: Barnaby B. Barratt File Type: pdf In a radically powerful interpretation of the human condition, this book redefines the discipline of psychoanalysis by examining its fundamental assumptions about the unconscious mind, the nature of personal history, our sexualities, and the significance of the Oedipus Complex. With striking originality, Barratt explains the psychoanalytic way of exploring our inner realities, and criticizes many of the schools of psychoanalytic psychotherapy that emerged and prospered during the 20th century.In 1912, Sigmund Freud formed a Secret Committee, charged with the task of protecting and advancing his discoveries. In this book, Barratt argues both that this was a major mistake, making the discipline more like a religious organization than a science, and that this continues to infuse psychoanalytic institutes today. What is Psychoanalysis? takes each of the four fundamental concepts that Freud himself said were the cornerstones of his science of healing, and offers a fresh and detailed re-examination of their contemporary importance. Barratts analysis demonstrates how the profound work, as well as the playfulness, of psychoanalysis, provides us with a critique of the ideologies that support oppression and exploitation on the social level. It will be of interest to advanced students of clinical psychology or philosophy, as well as psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. In a radically powerful interpretation of the human condition, this book redefines the discipline of psychoanalysis by examining its fundamental assumptions about the unconscious mind, the nature of personal history, our sexualities, and the significance of the Oedipus Complex. With striking originality, Barratt explains the psychoanalytic way of exploring our inner realities, and criticizes many of the schools of psychoanalytic psychotherapy that emerged and prospered during the 20th century.In 1912, Sigmund Freud formed a Secret Committee, charged with the task of protecting and advancing his discoveries. In this book, Barratt argues both that this was a major mistake, making the discipline more like a religious organization than a science, and that this continues to infuse psychoanalytic institutes today. What is Psychoanalysis? takes each of the four fundamental concepts that Freud himself said were the cornerstones of his science of healing, and offers a fresh and detailed re-examination of their contemporary importance. Barratts analysis demonstrates how the profound work, as well as the playfulness, of psychoanalysis, provides us with a critique of the ideologies that support oppression and exploitation on the social level. It will be of interest to advanced students of clinical psychology or philosophy, as well as psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Author: Robert W. Gehl File Type: pdf An exploration of the Dark Webwebsites accessible only with special routing softwarethat examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P.The term Dark Web conjures up drug markets, unregulated gun sales, stolen credit cards. But, as Robert Gehl points out in Weaving the Dark Web, for each of these illegitimate uses, there are other, legitimate ones the New York Timess anonymous whistleblowing system, for example, and the use of encryption by political dissidents. Defining the Dark Web straightforwardly as websites that can be accessed only with special routing software, and noting the frequent use of legitimate and its variations by users, journalists, and law enforcement to describe Dark Web practices (judging them legit or sh!t), Gehl uses the concept of legitimacy as a window into the Dark Web. He does so by examining the history of three Dark Web systems Freenet, Tor, and I2P.Gehl presents three distinct meanings of legitimate legitimate force, or the states claim to a monopoly on violence organizational propriety and authenticity. He explores how Freenet, Tor, and I2P grappled with these different meanings, and then discusses each form of legitimacy in detail by examining Dark Web markets, search engines, and social networking sites. Finally, taking a broader view of the Dark Web, Gehl argues for the value of anonymous political speech in a time of ubiquitous surveillance. If we shut down the Dark Web, he argues, we lose a valuable channel for dissent.