The author describes some obstacles encountered teaching undergraduates psychoanalytic theory. In academic environments that reflect a broader cultural skepticism, disinterest and animosity to analytic ideas, the author argues that it is imperative to develop and utilize teaching methods that have an experience-near quality. Without clinical experience and perhaps hesitant to use their own personal lives for material, students may seemingly lack data to test out the explanatory value of analytic ideas. This essay illustrates one device the author developed of using students' “celebrity object” relationships to idiosyncratically cathected popular culture figures to allow for increased engagement with analytic ideas.

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名人为教学对象：用坎耶·韦斯特和金·卡戴珊来解释弗洛伊德

作者介绍了本科生精神分析理论教学中遇到的一些障碍。在反映更广泛的文化怀疑、不感兴趣和对分析思想的敌意的学术环境中，作者认为必须开发和利用具有接近体验质量的教学方法。如果没有临床经验，并且可能不愿将自己的个人生活用作材料，学生可能似乎缺乏数据来检验分析思想的解释价值。这篇文章展示了作者开发的一种方法，即利用学生的“名人对象”关系与特殊的流行文化人物之间的关系，以增加对分析思想的参与。