We have become active consumers of therapy! This notion raises immediate alarm in the humanist and learned community for such notions stand to trivialize the suffering of many (as much as a quarter of Americans (Terlizzi & Zablotsky, 2020)) and feed the paternalistic stereotypes (e.g., weakness) around seeking help for mental issues. However, my […]
Blainey in his book The Causes of War (1973) lists a number of causes of war in popular imagination. “In the eighteenth century, many philosophers thought that the ambitions of absolute monarchs were the main cause of war; pull down the mighty, and wars would become rare. Another theory contended that many wars came […]
THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT A HINDOO FABLE. John Godfrey Saxe (1872) I. IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind.
“The object of this study is the condition of knowledge in the most highly developed societies.I have decided to use the word postmodernto describe that condition. The word is in current use on the American continent among sociologists and critics; it designates the state of our culture following the transformations which, since the end of […]
In psychoanalysis, parapraxis – other called a Freudian slip in quotidian lingo – is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that occurs due to the interference of an unconscious subdued wish or internal train of thought. In The Psychopathology of Everyday Life Freud suggest parapraxis is, “the phenomena can be traced back to […]