Sublime

Cranz’s project in “phenomenological hermeneutics” is an attempt to reclaim an experience of the psyche that was consciously articulated by Aristotle.

Depuis qu’au début de ma spécialisation j’ai lu Existence, le livre de Rollo May, et suivi mes premiers cours de philosophie à Johns-Hopkins, je me suis demandé comment je pourrais intégrer la sagesse du passé au champ de la psychothérapie. Plus je lisais de philosophie, plus je me rendais compte du nombre d’idées qui échappaient à la psychiatrie.

An enormous number of people have influenced my thinking, but three were particularly important: William Braud, Barbara Babcock, and Edmund Leach. Parapsychologist William Braud integrated an enormous range of findings with his model of lability and inertia in psi processes. Barbara Babcock is the most significant interpreter of the trickster

Our responsibility is to participate and, through chaos, to create.

Modern universalisms seek to justify their vision as non-particularistic as well as non-transcendent. Let us start by assessing whether this ambition can be sustained and if so whether their effectiveness can be retained.

Yale professor Lauri Santos’s course “Psychology and the Good Life,”