Torn/Dichotomy

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The English word ‘psychoanalysis’, apart from its composition from the two Old Greek words that give it its meaning, contains another interesting aspect in its word structure. If the first two letters are swapped, the word ‘spy’ becomes a new and quite meaningful phrase—”The Spy in my Head”. Someone enters my inner stage and I myself have opened the front door voluntarily or have been forced to open it. This someone opens other doors— back doors that I have deliberately kept closed. All for my benefit, maybe not really helpful, but it does something to me. Apart from the “necessities” for psychoanalytic and psychiatric therapies (a psyche that deviates from the norm does not necessarily have to be equated with illness and regarded as problematic—what is ‘normal’ anyway) the fact remains that someone is spying in my head. To return to the image of the stage I used at the beginning: the inner stage is my ultimate refuge, from which I do not want the inside to be turned outwards.

Just a little gimmick: “Psy” is also the name of the South Korean musician who caused a sensation with “Gangnam Style”.