On this episode of the Being Properly Podcast, Dr. Rick and Forrest discover the concepts, context, and legacy of psychoanalysis, the often-controversial origin level for contemporary remedy. They focus on psychoanalysis’ early historical past and key ideas just like the unconscious thoughts, repression, internal battle, and transference. Alongside these main contributions, they wrestle with what hasn’t aged so effectively: the reductionism, murky ethics, and entanglements with colonialism and the Victorian worldview. This episode is each a tribute to and a critique of psychoanalysis as a wealthy, flawed, and deeply influential place to begin for contemporary remedy.
Key Subjects
- 0:00: Introduction: Why do that episode?
- 3:40: Appreciating historic and cultural context in remedy
- 7:15: What’s psychoanalysis?
- 10:35: Freud’s key perception, and the 5 “large concepts” of psychoanalysis
- 18:00: The construction of the thoughts
- 24:00: Repression, catharsis, and “experiencing out”
- 27:35: Transference, countertransference, and defenses
- 29:10: Freud’s psychosexual principle and its legacy
- 32:55: What psychoanalysis seems like in observe as we speak
- 41:05: Historic origins: Freud, hysteria, and the “speaking treatment”
- 46:45: Freud’s philosophical influences and colonial context
- 52:00: The ethical and political implications of psychoanalytic principle
- 58:10: Freud’s private contradictions and sophisticated legacy
- 1:07:50: Recap
Forrest is now writing on Substack, try his work there.


