The famous Delphic maxim — “Know thyself!” — has been a guiding principle in both philosophy and psychoanalysis. Both disciplines agree that self-knowledge is valuable but often difficult to achieve. Even Socrates, in the Phaedrus, admits that he struggles with truly knowing himself: “I am not yet able, as the Delphic inscription has it, to know myself.” In this webinar, we will draw our resources from both traditions to examine why self-knowledge is so hard to achieve, to deepen our own self-understanding, and to devise some practical strategies for working with patients to deepen their own self-possession.
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PPT SLides: The Quest for Self-Understanding in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
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Allison Merrick, Ph.D., Psy.D., RP, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, San Marcos and a trained Research Psychoanalyst with a private practice. She is the author of the forthcoming book Nietzsche on the Methods and Aims of Philosophy: The Seal of Liberation (Cambridge University Press) and the co-editor of Nietzsche and Politicized Identities (2024) and of “Shame: Sources and Trajectories” a special issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2024).
