Stacey Hansen

Linguists previously thought that languages vary in how they use demonstratives, but all the languages examined in this study distinguished between ‘this’ or ‘that’ based on whether the speaker could reach the object they were talking about. In some languages, the position of the person being spoken to was also... See more

in culture depictions like the sopranos show highly competent therapists who are maybe self inserts for the superego of the viewers, a stand in for the median moral law of the culture. this gives them enormous power in people’s imagination