Sublime

Your habitual ways of interacting with the important people in your life tell us a great deal about the defense mechanisms you typically use.

George Danzig was a graduate student in math at Berkeley. One day, as usual, he rushed in late to his math class and quickly copied the two homework problems from the blackboard. When he later went to do them, he found them very difficult, and it took him several days of hard work to crack them open and solve them. They turned out not to be homewor

Charles Segal, a recently retired Harvard professor of classics who taught my Greek Tragedy course, spoke about how the Oedipus trilogy reminded him of Erik Erikson’s three stages of development. In youth, Professor Segal said, a person struggles to figure out who they are in relation to their parents (a real head scratcher in Oedipus’s case). In m

Many researchers talk in terms of upward and downward comparisons.

Make

INTERVENE.

There's a great thing about being different from the sub-system you are in. At the explosion, you get to join a group of people who are like-spirited.

But I like to think that my flaws are in the social, rather than in the moral category.

In some of them, new recruits are trained in Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication and in effective ways to give feedback.