this was talk therapy of the densest, most intellectually rigorous, challenging, and unsettling sort: Kleinian analysis, a treatment method that found its origins in the work of Sigmund Freud. Freud built his theory of mind and method of treatment upon the concept of the human “unconscious”—the idea that we all think, feel, and do what we do for reasons that we are not entirely aware of. He believed that the unconscious was a “seething cauldron,” filled with primitive forces at war with one another, forces that literally drove us to act. Central to Freud’s thinking about psychoanalysis was the
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