[Xmca-l] Re: Doctoral Theses and autobiography

[Andy Blunden]

No, I meant it for the whole list. Agreed "related but not identical." I 
know about these terms.
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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Martin John Packer wrote:
> Andy,
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> I think you probably didn't intend to post this to the whole list. But "working through" is a term in Freudian psychoanalysis. It is related to Freud's use of the ancient notion of "catharsis," but not identical. (Compare "abreaction.")
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> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_through>
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> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6836082>
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> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abreaction>
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> Martin
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> On Oct 17, 2014, at 8:14 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
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>> Recently I read an interesting paper. By one Rumen Petrov, it is an autobiographical essay on doing his PhD. It was fascinating.
>> In the course of this he says "many Doctoral theses are various forms of working through." Petrov is a Bulgarian Freudian with an interest in Vygotsky, so "working over" means catharsis, or perezhivanie.
>> I thought this was a nice observation.
>> Are all you PhD students going through this?
>> Andy
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