The painting of a nonworking timepiece above, by my favorite artist, Salvador Dali, reflects the reality of this page’s pace–that is, very slow to come into being. I’ve taken it down and, as the drawing below says, am rebuilding it from scratch.
My starting point is posting those among the reams of my decades of lecture notes that I think may have widespread value. Then I’ll continue on.
The first of these posts conveys the essence of Sigmund Freud’s work on identifying and describing defense mechanisms. He completed much of this work late in life. It is publshers in a variety of writings, available in full in Volume V of his Collected Papers. I consider this work to be among is very most important contributions. (It’s especially relevant now that the executive branch of our government is now dominated by people whose behavior is dominated almost totally by them. With #47, above all it’s projection. Whatever bad action he attributes to someone else and criticizes them for, it’s almost always something he does himself.)
