“It is thus that psycho-analysis has sought to educate the ego. But these two discoveries - that the life of our sexual instincts cannot be wholly tamed, and that mental processes are in themselves unconscious and only reach the ego and come under its control through incomplete and untrustworthy perceptions - these two discoveries amount to a statement that the ego is not master in its own house. Together they represent the third blow to man’s self-love, what I may call the psychological one. No wonder, then, that the ego does not look favourably upon psychoanalysis and obstinately refuses to believe in it.” FREUD

Tom GreenallSeptember 25, 2026

Magic Wall Radio: August 🪄🧱📻

"A failure of translation is what we know clinically as 'repression. The motive for it is always a release of unpleasure which would result from a translation; it is as though this unpleasure provokes a disturbance of thought which forbids the process of translation." FREUD

Tom GreenallAugust 23, 2026

Magic Wall Radio: July 🪄🧱📻

This sudden urge to drive off somewhere had brought me to a forest. And there was another way of talking, according to which something, something or another, led, whatever that might mean, to something else, yes, something else… (J.F)

Tom GreenallJuly 26, 2026

Magic Wall Radio: June 🪄🧱📻

88 years ago last weekend, June 13th Freud arrived in London on exile from Vienna. The Nazis had allowed him take his papers and some personal property, but confiscated much of his money and property in Vienna. He later dreams of…

Tom GreenallJuly 25, 2026

Magic Wall Radio: May 🪄🧱📻

“The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it… “

Freud, S. (1920). Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Standard Edition, Vol. 18, pp. 7-64). London: Hogarth.

Tom GreenallJuly 25, 2026

Magic Wall Radio🪄🧱📻

A new platform / community for the discerning / deserving ear.

Tom GreenallJuly 25, 2026

Après coup (4)

I was in that state between waking and sleeping. From there you can wander towards either of the two.

Tom GreenallJuly 19, 2025

Après coup (3)

Episode 3: I called it a "mustard" pot in order to point out that, far from necessarily containing any, it is precisely because it is empty that it takes on its value as a mustard pot.

Tom GreenallApril 6, 2025