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Teresa Wymore πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Storyteller
@teresawymore.bsky.social
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Author, Artist, Analysand, Academic. I'm interested in all things psychoanalytic. Postmodern as fuck. | YOLO & MOMO | she/her. https://linktr.ee/teresa.social
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I’m looking for myself in these psychoanalytic theories β€” men’s theories, men’s lived experience, where they conjecture on what is not them. These theories don’t contain me. They don’t master me.
#PersonalEssay
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Diary of a Psychoanalysis: Excess
24β€”This is about one woman’s psychoanalysis.
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My personal essay series started a year ago this week. It's been 54 essays about my experience of 4 sessions/week on the couch. "Though I frame the work in terms of transgression, its deeper tension is maternal: the ambivalence of care and withdrawal."

#psychoanalysis

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Read writing from Lost in Transference on Medium. A Psychoanalytic Journey Published Weekly. https://linktr.ee/teresa.social
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The asymmetry matters. I give him my interior; he largely stays behind the screen. My taste for edges and for trespass is magnetized by the very architecture. Speech and writing give me another border. I live in both.

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Diary of a Psychoanalysis: I Almost Had Sex
53β€” This is a week of harder days.
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"But I’m always sexually active. I would say we all are. And yet, the one thing I didn’t think about in that whole long moment of staring, but that came to me later, is that the most intensely erotic relationship I have right now is with David."
#PersonalEssay
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Diary of a Psychoanalysis: Sexually Active
23β€”I’m turned on, but don’t want sex? What does that even mean?
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"So anyway, this essay started with that dream about the pool and the kiss, and it brought us to David’s voice and sex sounds. Maybe because that’s also where the kiss went. To David."
#PersonalEssay

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Diary of a Psychoanalysis: Voices & Sex
22β€Šβ€”β€ŠEveryone talks about speaking but not about sounding.
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"David asked if I sensed him β€” his presence, maybe how he felt or experienced what was happening β€” through all this. I didn’t. I had no sense of him or his feelings at all. But I couldn’t feel myself, either."
#PersonalEssay
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Diary of a Psychoanalysis: Emotional Opacity
21β€Šβ€”β€ŠEven something terrible is better than nothing at all.
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"I’m aware that the very fact I designed a research project to challenge the diagnosis of schizoid and stall an encroaching analytic relationship is pretty much enough to confirm the diagnosis."
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Diary of a Psychoanalysis: Burning Questions
17β€”Schizoids aren’t passive nonparticipants in this world; we just walk the edges.
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Lacan’s lamella β€” that absurd immortal scrap of desire β€” is nothing but the ghost of ownership that refuses to die. Stirner would laugh: even the drive wants to possess me. I tear it apart and eat it; my will digests what psychoanalysis dares to call eternal.
"my will digests what psychoanalysis dares to call eternal" 🀌
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I had to look up the word Jouissance
"She was in her twenties, and I was in my fifties; a lot of life separated us, a lot of understanding. Kimmie called herself pansexual and had many relationships with men. I was her first lesbian experience."
#PersonalEssay #polyamory #sexuality
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Diary of a Psychoanalysis: You Knew We Would Talk About Penis Envy
15β€”My husband owes me a girlfriend because he stole mine.
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Wow lol. I like the paper but you’re right about the tone. Only in the Dialogues. My favorite journal.
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In a paper on the theory of countertransference, whose polemical and intemperate tone makes it difficult to fully recommend, Jeanne Wolff Bernstein offers a helpful (Lacanian) critique of the American relational school’s tendency to confuse subjectivity with personhood.
"Fish that stray too deep can drown, their wide-eyed corpses frozen in eternal surprise. If fish can drown here, what is this but the place where boundaries dissolve and reason sleeps?"
#PersonalEssay
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Diary of a Psychoanalysis: For Love of Water
14β€” There’s a seductive intoxication that seeps into your mind the farther down you go.
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"From the absent hands of the Essanti in Darklaw to the commanding hands of Avila in Lesdom Lessons and the therapeutic touch in Secrets of the Velvet Trap, hands symbolize control, vulnerability, and transformation.
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Diary of a Psychoanalysis: The Problem With Hands
13β€Šβ€”β€ŠAbusive and restrained hands are constant themes in my stories.
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I explained Melanie Klein's good breast/bad breast, infantile terror, and depressive position to my tantruming 8yo in the car this morning and it calmed her down immediately. So anybody who says psychoanalysis doesn't work is just doing it wrong.
"Tired of harrowing stories devoid of meaning, I said, no, in fact, that potato-sack dress is a fucking tragic memory from a lonely girl’s devastating childhood where she was neglected and degraded by a narcissistic bitch of a mother."
#trauma
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Diary of a Psychoanalysis: What We Inherit
10 β€”Far more than a man, a woman often sacrifices her soul for survival.
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"How could they think their use of my body meant anything to me? What moment in that emotional desert of sexual theft told them I enjoyed any of it? I hated them all, which was so simply obvious to me that I assumed they didn’t care and this was normal."
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Diary of a Psychoanalysis: All My Brother’s Friends
9 β€”What moment in that emotional desert of sexual theft told them I enjoyed any of it?
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