“All I know is that I do not know.” Perhaps the most memorable quote from Socrates, which in turn explains our state of mind and our overall reality once we arrived at the absurdity of the world scene in the previous piece. But with absurdity consuming all else, including our social reality, all we are … Continue reading Wish
Tag: psychology
Second Footnote to the post “Believe an Expert”
And even if the propaganda is accompanied by actions which seek to carry out American foreign policy with good intentions as in the case of giving countries foreign aid or humanitarian aid, the recipients of the aid are often governments who suppress the economic and social development of their people, as Morgenthau argued. Therefore, aid … Continue reading Second Footnote to the post “Believe an Expert”
Suggestion
Love is an education in and of itself, as Eleanor Roosevelt once said. Hence, at the heart of both communication and therapy, we have what is known as “transference” or “transference-love” to borrow from Freud. In a sense, Freud equated “transference” to therapy. And the goal of therapy, as Freud argued, is to help the … Continue reading Suggestion
Humble
And if love and hate is the basic polarity which is at the heart of mental and psychic life, then what does love actually mean? How do we define and explain love? In essence, there are two kinds of love, namely, self-love or love for a love object. The whole process of love, and love … Continue reading Humble
Love and Hate
It follows that we do not stop at conflict when we are pursuing a final analysis of everything, given that in the end, everything is psychoanalytical, and given that everything is psychoanalytical, conflict ends up serving as a mere model for psychoanalysis. We have repression and the self-preservation instinct on one hand, and on the … Continue reading Love and Hate
Adam A. Azim 