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Psychoanalysis Reflection

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This week’s readings are truly the biggest challenge for me to understand. The first time I heard about the term “psychoanalysis” was last semester when Dr. Deborah Britzman visited our university to share her work. Before attending to her talk, I tried to read some of her papers, and I was extremely shocked when I did not understand anything discussing in her work. Since that point, psychoanalysis made a tough impression on me that I couldn’t digest its concept. And now, when reading this week’s articles about psychoanalysis, my brain seemed to feel blocked and dazed, although I tried my best to go slowly through line by line, drink a lot of tea to keep it awake, but still the revulsion that “No, it is way too impossible for me!” was occupied my mind. After finishing Lewkowich’s article (with many struggles), I wonder whether my blocked brain when hearing the word “psychoanalysis” is a psychoanalytic experience, because my reaction toward any articles about psychoanalysis was determined by the unconscious past event last semester, it is like the abjection is caused by the baby’s separation from the mother (Barret, 2011, p. 70). Lewkowich (2015) reveals that his sweaty body when teaching, as an “abject reminder”, is the bodily form of his “anxieties, fears and worries” (p. 41). He suggested that “in teaching, we each have our own unique breed of abject reminders that, if thought in relation to our own incompleteness, can serve as a prompt for the development of ethical

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