Sublime

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Man of the Crowd.

there is no disorder to straighten out, no threat for the self to defend against.

Philosophie antique, psychologie moderne

His first ‘real’ breakdown, we can reasonably assume, took place after his nineteenth birthday, which suggests it was sometime after December 1947, six months after he graduated. However, he was later to inform his psychiatrist, Barry Spatz, that the treatment took place when he was eighteen and involved a series of visits to the Langley Porter

“This,” comments Dyer, “is one of the lessons of the Zone: sometimes a man doesn’t want to do what a man thinks he wants to do.”

Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking, and for many years wrote a popular weekly column on psychology for the Guardian, ‘This Column Will Change Your Life’. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychologies and New Philosopher.

Morris Schutt is stumbling towards a discovery of himself, attempting to understand how one should live the best life.

BACK AT CHETWYND-PITT’S chalet, floating in the tub, Nirvana’s Nevermind thumping through the walls, I smoke a joint among the steam serpents and peruse the Case of the Body-Hopping Mind for the thousandth time. The facts are deceptively simple: Six nights ago, outside my parents’ home, I encountered one mind in possession of someone else’s body.

voluntarily, when there was absolutely no kind of geographical loyalty involved, was an act of such utter pointlessness that I felt rather in awe of Nick. I had been reading about existentialism; here was someone living it, someone who accepted the concept of an act of Free Will in a Meaningless Universe, and was taking it to a new level. Given