Psychedelics and Psychoanalysis
took the gif from: https://professorjbatista.com/listas_para_treinamento. html This is the talk I gave at Ars Electronica last year (2024), it was meant for a broad audience (all rights reserved, including the sketches). The title was: Non-knowledge in Psychoanalysis, at the Church of Ignorance. I talk about how psychoanalysis developed and tackle subjects like: What is identity/the... Continue Reading →
There is also this article published by Sublation Mag where I expand on my last post about the critique of the psychedelic renaissance.
I would like to announce and make you all aware of an organisation called "The Psychedelic Experience Clinic" in the UK which offers psychotherapeutic sessions for people who need to talk about their experience(s). What a great inivitative! I applaude it whole-heartedly! The Psychedelic Experience Clinic aims to provide councelling, support, orientation for patients. And... Continue Reading →
On a slightly different topic, but still related to psychedelics and the current discourse I want to make an announcement: I am very very happy that an essay of mine has been published From Sublation Magazine: "We live in a time of crisis. In recent years, we’ve been told that the left has been on... Continue Reading →
A heartfelt welcome back to my blog! It’s been five years and the psychedelic renaissance has been expanding its pseudopodia and seeping into our mental health facilities around the world. Great? Hold on!!!! I want to emphasise essential points that everyone should consider when dealing with psychedelic experiences today. Teachers Who is the teacher in... Continue Reading →
I feel a mixture of excitement, force and thankfulness - even awe – to have participated in another psychedelic conference. Beyond Psychedelics in Prague was my second one and surely things have evolved since last year at Breaking Convention. In between there have been of course many other conferences of the type and they seem... Continue Reading →
Psychedelics and the Unconscious <<<<<<<<<<<<VIEW This is a more detailed version of the talk I gave at Beyond Psychedelics 2018 in Prague. I applied Freudian/Lacanian concepts to model the psychodynamics of DMT and LSD experiences. It is useful to have a structure to approach the unconscious processes in order to maybe use these tools for... Continue Reading →
The experience of alienation is intrinsic to taking psychedelic substances. Encoutering entities after smoking N,-N-Dimethyltriptamine (DMT) * or driking Ayahuasca is widely reported, these are described as either plant spirits, deities, gods, aliens, machine elves, clowns/jesters, etc. I will try not to get lost in the marvellous phenomenology and search for meaning in these phantasmatic... Continue Reading →
The Conference about Psychedelic Science brought along many crossings of paths. Psychedelic experiences were openly discussed and the engagement in the air was claspable regarding all the exciting projects that seem to be around- from art, scientific disertations, books and all the special people putting lots of effort and thought into various aspects of the... Continue Reading →
„There are cases in which parts of a person’s own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own... Continue Reading →
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