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[image] 1/5 Is Psychoanalysis a Science? Psychoanalysis is probably the psychological theory best known by the public. For example, laypersons are familiar with the term “anal retentive” Yet among psychologists, it remains one of the most contested theories in the history of the

[image] Schizoanalysis doesn’t kill psychoanalysis, it resurrects it. Guattari’s argument in The Machinic Unconscious (1979) is precise: psychoanalysis failed because it became a gigantic industry for normalization, adaptation, and the organized division of the socius, a machine serving

[image] The scholar, historian, and psychoanalyst Elisabeth Roudinesco addressed this problem directly in her book Why Psychoanalysis?, describing the contemporary West as “the Depressive Society” a world in which physicians prescribe drugs to eliminate psychic symptoms without inquiring