It turns out that for Ashbery, the big theory was psychoanalysis, the process by which secondhand knowledge becomes firsthand.” ...

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This discovery led Pavlov to develop the theory that behavior could be learned simply by introducing consistent stimuli. Classical conditioning is often considered the most important discovery in the ...

It’s not as if I’ve studied Freud and found him wanting ... but a good analyst knows that the theory is something suggestive and perhaps helpful to him. What is really happening is a very private and ...