Primary and Secondary Psychic Processes: Two Modes of Mental Functioning
Freud’s distinction between primary and secondary psychic processes—from displacement, condensation, dreams and humour to logic, reality and the work of the Ego.
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Primal Fantasies: Freud’s Theory of Inherited Psychic Schemas
Freud’s concept of primal fantasies: inherited childhood schemas involving seduction, the primal scene, sexual difference and the cloacal theory.
Hysteria: Psychic Conflict on the Stage of the Body
A psychoanalytic view of hysteria—from the ancient idea of the ‘wandering womb’ to conversion, phobia, repression and transference.
How I Built an Automated Financial Analysis Pipeline with Lunch Money, iOS Shortcuts, Google Sheets, and ChatGPT
A complete step-by-step guide to fast transaction entry with iOS Shortcuts, the Lunch Money v2 API, a Google Apps Script cloud sync, a Google Sheets mirror, and weekly ChatGPT analysis delivered through Gmail.
How I Built a Fully Automated AI Health Report from Apple Health: Step-by-Step
A complete implementation guide to exporting Apple Health data with Health Auto Export and Shortcuts, isolating it in Google Drive, and generating a reliable cloud-scheduled AI morning report.
How the Psyche Protects Us from Ourselves
One of the most elegant paradoxes of psychoanalysis is that the psyche does not primarily strive for truth, but for
Debugging Code and Debugging the Soul: Why the Analogy Is Misleading
People often ask me whether debugging code has helped me in psychotherapy – and if there’s a similarity between fixing
Artificial Intelligence and the “Lazy Brain”: Why We Won’t Get Dumber
Recently, concerns have been raised that the mass adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) will make us mentally lazy and eventually
Anti-Consumerism: The No-Buy Movement as a Natural Balance
From Consumer Chaos to the Counter-Reaction In recent decades, consumer culture has reached extremes, vividly illustrated in scenes of chaos
Book Review Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
The novel Musashi is an easy, unpretentious read, with a style so straightforward that it occasionally feels almost childlike. This