Psychoanalysis Sessions: How Do I Know If I Need an Analyst?

Qual é a hora de se escutar?

When is it time to do an analysis?

The time to seek psychoanalysis is when life becomes uncomfortable. It can be during turbulent times, during transitions, or, conversely, when life feels stagnant, lacking movement or direction. The motivations for seeking psychoanalysis vary. You may need psychoanalysis when you move to another country or when you have already moved and are experiencing conflicts due to being a migrant; when you want to make a professional transition and don't understand why you can't leave your job; when you have relationship patterns that cause you suffering; in situations of violence; when you have family or identity conflicts; when you don't know what you want to do with your life; when you feel excessive anguish or anxiety and present other physical and psychological symptoms.

What is psychoanalysis for?

An analysis helps you construct a narrative and investigate the cause of your complaints. Through words, you can reconstruct your life experience and discover what your symptoms reveal and how they affect you. By generating insight and meaning for your psychological suffering, you transform your emotions by analyzing the language of the unconscious, which manifests in speech slurs, slips of the tongue, dreams, jokes, and also in the coded messages that appear in your body.

Your symptom is an unconscious message to be deciphered , and psychoanalysis is the possibility of making words be interpreted and find their proper place to symbolize the emptiness of existence and search for your uniqueness as a subject facing life.

Is psychoanalysis for you?

#Psychoanalysis is for everyone! For those who question themselves, for those who want to problematize their existence and seek the root of their problems. And to resolve our existential questions, the questions we ask Google to try to understand the "how" of things aren't enough; for example, " how to feel less anxious ," " how to stop procrastinating ," " how to overcome depression ," how to do this and how to do that. Following a checklist can even reduce your anxiety, but do you know why you're anxious?

Psychoanalysis sessions are a space to discover the why and how of things and understand how to address the underlying problem of the symptom and what you disapprove of in others or in yourself. By connecting with our contradictions, ambivalences, and enigmas, we develop subjectivity to discover our uniqueness and address our uncertainties, questioning absolute certainties and the social discourses we accept without even thinking about it. If you want to explore yourself and discover new paths for your life, psychoanalysis is for you !

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"Cages are where certainties live."

We are like that. We dream of flying, but we fear heights. To fly, we must love the void . Because flying only happens if there is emptiness. Emptiness is the space of freedom, the absence of certainties. Men want to fly, but they fear the void. They cannot live without certainties. That is why they exchange flight for cages. Cages are the place where certainties live. It is a mistake to think that men would be free if they could, that they are not because a stranger caged them, that if the cage doors were open they would fly. The truth is the opposite. Men prefer cages to flight. They themselves build the cages where they will spend their lives. Rubem Alves

Psychoanalysis can help you be freer. Do you want to?