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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Interested in child development? Are you a parent? Are you thinking about being a parent? This looks like an amazing series coming up. bgsp.edu/event/the-fi...

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“The physicist Max Planck claimed that science progresses at the speed with which the old guard dies off. The fall of the psychoanalytic empire seemed a little quicker than that.”

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“In the 196os, more than half of all American psychiatrists were psychoanalysts; today the percentage has dwindled to single figures…1/2

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Throw back Thursday. #TBT For those unfamiliar- I am holding a “phone” that was attached to a wall and the piece of it in my hand was attached to that with a cord. Best upgrade was when the cord reached all the way to the living room and you could be mobile with it.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Had an good time at my first machine massage- I liked the preheat the AI arms did before working an area, was really impressed with the pressure and control I had over that, and its ability to find muscle insertion points and knots! @aescape

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Throw back Thursday … on summer vacation so not posting as much, but here ya go!

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A nice break from #psychoanalytic reading #DCC 2 books still to buy. 2 more to get published.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Always impressed with our students @northeasterncos.bsky.social Thanks for representing the Psychology department at the admissions Welcome Day!

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Thanks Zac for joining me at the table today @northeasternu.bsky.social to represent #Psychology at the explore program event. @northeasterncos.bsky.social

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

"...our childhoods leave in us stories... stories we never found a way to voice...When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find outselves acting in ways we don't undersand" p10 Grosz (2013)

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

“…[antisemitism] had hardly been noticed by either learned or public opinion because [it] belonged to a subterranean stream of European history where, hidden from the light of the public & the attention of the enlightened, [it] had been able to gather an entirely unexpected violence.“p7 Arendt

A photograph of Hannah ARENDT’s, the origins of total terrorism book

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Amazing discussions last night at BGSP on Netflix’s, devastating #Adolescence Aidan McGowan presented a poster from @northeasterncos.bsky.social And Sahlean and I presented ideas while the audience questioned if this would have been gun violence if set in the US

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

To represent emotion is to expereince it, and once expereinced, it can be experienced again, with less need for distancing the self from it, as it becomes more tolerable and internalized. p112 from Barahona's book- Such a great summary of Learning from Expereince.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"... I became aware of aware of murder enetering the analytic field in an important way. haunting the field between us like our own ghosts, underneath the disguise of my fantastic countertransference feelings and in the whispers [the patient] imagined..." p75 #Psychoanalysis

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"Where the #ego was, there a black hole remains" - p59 #Bion #Psychoanalysis Barahona's book -

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

"I would like to emphasize here that what I am referring to as T(-H),which involves processses of disinvestment of the representational capacity, is not the passive process that turns of phrases like 'leaves a terrifying emptiness' suggest, but an active process of ...

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

“… The ego blocks the instinctual urge; it has become autonomous and anti-instinctive, and then becomes a destructive nuisance, such as we see in every neurotic. A neurosis could even be defined as an ego formation no longer in harmony with the whole personality” p 61.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

“Only if one throws a shadow is one real. The shadow plunge man into the immediacy of situations here & now, and thus creates the real biography of the human being, who is always inclined to assume that he is only what he thinks he is. ” p142

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

“When symbolic factors are repressed, they glut the instincts, and therefore they must be separated out so that the genuine instinct can function without being overloaded.“ Page 134

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Evil “provide us with the opportunities to increase consciousness… When we see our own greed, jealousy, spite, hatred… then these can be turned positive because in such destructive emotions is stored much life, & when we have this energy it can be turned to positive ends.”p126

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Without the fire of emotions, no development takes place in no higher consciousness can be reached,… p 104

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Jung said that to be in a situation where there’s no way out or to be in a conflict where there is no solution is the classical beginning of the process of individual. Page 95.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

In its positive meaning, we had the ring as a symbol of union a consciously chosen obligation towards some divine power, that is, toward SELF; in it’s negative aspect it means fascination, being caught, being bound,I.e.: being caught in a vicious cycle P91

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The anima–which means for a man, the realm of fantasy and the way he relates to the unconscious-was once integrated .. had reached a human level, but now, under unfavorable, cultural circumstances, has been shut off and repressed into the unconscious“ p84

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Intuition? Trusting your gut? A final tendency in the current psychological flow of life… “when someone comes into analysis…According to the Jungian point of view, they … have a final aspect and we therefore look to see where the libido tends to go.“ p 68

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Gold can be buried in the Earth and dug up unharmed after 1000 years, unlike copper or silver or iron, so it is immortal, that which outlast; it is the eternal, the divine and the most precious, and whenever something is made of gold, it is said to have the eternal quality.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The animal is the carrier of the projection of human psychic factors…, and as long as you do not take the projection back, the animal and what you projected into it are identical; they are one in the same thing. … our animal instincts. Page 36.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

In the unconscious, all archtypes are contaminated with one another. P. 14.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

..[in] attempts at interpretation, one can see a regression to a very personalistic approach. The interpreters judge… misfortunes to be an image of neurosis.pvii she goes on to say that this is a mistake,they are “the difficulties and dangers given to us by nature.“

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

In terms of Jung's concept, every archetype is in its essence an unknown psychic factor, and therefore there is no possibility of translating its content into intellectual terms.P1

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes. Therefore their value for the scientific investigation of the unconscious exceeds that of all other material.p1

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

“Psychoanalysis differentiates itself from behavioral therapies above all in listening for the unpredictable flow of libidinal energy, even if this means putting in question ourselves & our lives... it shares a capacity to unsettle assumptions about who we are & what we want.“ p 155, Cohen (2025).

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“Mass rage is dispersed, a floating resource liable to capture by the highest bitter, for whom it serves as an endlessly, renewable reserve of political capital… p 122 – Cohen, Josh (2024) All the Rage: Why anger drives the world

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If this experience goes on unaddressed for too long, the man the boy becomes is likely to struggle to bear his anger, to find a language which lends it shape and form.“ – Josh Cohen, All the Rage, page 98

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Random photos related to nothing. Just dog sitting this week.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Last day of classes! Got to planting the deck pots today. The theme is textured white and purple. And of course, mint.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Ok Psyc4666- almost as if planned… x.com/jonathanshed... Popular press vs the research

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

It’s surely at the moment anger feels most right that it becomes most dangerous, because it is most liable to seal itself tightly into its own self certainty.p14.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

“The problem is action never exhausts a feeling.”-Josh Cohen, #AllTheRage (2024) pxxxv Happy to return to pleasure reading before summer classes start May 5th.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

“The problem is action never exhausts a feeling.”-Josh Cohen, #AllTheRage (2024) pxxxv Happy to return to pleasure reading before summer classes start May 5th.

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I’m always impressed with students in the presentations at the campus events here @northeasternu.bsky.social @northeasterncos.bsky.social -Welcome Day for accepted students w/ a student & faculty Q&A I do sometimes feel like maybe I didn’t do enough in my undergrad!These students are so amazing

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

PsyClub research panel tonight! W Boba! This one is being recorded and will be available to help students figure out how to start their research learning @northeasterncos.bsky.social and @northeasternu.bsky.social

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Professor William Sharp @drwilliamsharp.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Cool when your iPhone notified you of a new podcast of a show you follow… and you’re the one being interviewed! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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