Impossible to 'comprehend'. (Mis)understanding, and listening in psychoanalysis (video 2/8)

Comprehend derives from Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”), from the prefix com- + prehendere (“to seize”). It means to include, comprise; to contain, to grasp fully and thoroughly. However, the very idea of the unconscious implies that something escapes comprehension. Conversely, understand indicates...(continue in the video)

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