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The witch has turned from being a figure of alienation and marginalization to one of aspiration. No longer does the witch manage the divide between th
When scientific progress destabilized religious authority and the lack of meaning found in a pure rational worldview revealed science’s limitations, m
Of course this is what museum culture does: it, depending on your point of view, loots historical artifacts from a context in which they are useful an
The repetition of the word “immersed” is interesting, as it suggests this is not something these women studied, that instead it was a liquid medium th
Four great relationship qs: 1. In what ways can I love you better? 2. What is something that you’ve been telling that I miss or overlooked for you?
Every single person that you are reaching out to with a hidden agenda in mind can feel it, and the relationship is doomed to fail. Long-lasting relati
My humanity is bound in yours. A person is a person through other persons. -Desmond Tutu
development happens spontaneously in the right social context
One of my favorite quotes in psychoanalysis, from Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok: "What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the s
Neverrr neverrrr look desperate in life. Remain calm during hard times. Understand it’s just your time to suffer like every great man before you.
“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”
Musings on living a better life + becoming a better human. Plus tools, projects and communities that help you do that.
That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe
Traumatisation is most usually presented as anunassailable, concrete fact, and this is where I need to be respectful. If someone brings a firmconvicti
when the trauma label has been appliedby outside mores – when an event like an explosion, an assault or a sexual event has taken place andour culture
Surviving…whatever all this is… doesn’t have to mean being left a shell of a human. In culture today, there’s an attempt to make something out of it.
The latest season touches on a similar note — in which Robinson’s neighbor sneaks a pig in a Richard Nixon mask into his home. It ends with an all-too
Extra-Existentialism
