Tag: Psychoanalysis
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Good Friday | Book Review: ‘God is Unconscious’
I’ll cut to the chase: if you are at all interested in what theology is — and who we are as people interested in it — then you should read Tad Delay’s God is Unconscious. Go buy it here (UK) or here (US). It’s perhaps the ideal Good Friday read because it gets further to the heart…
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I don’t Believe in Ghosts, I Believe in Ghosts
I’ve been really enjoying The Returned – a French thriller currently airing in the UK on Sunday evenings. (Watch the latest episode here.) It concerns the (apparent) return of some young people to a small town in the Alps, some 10 years after they had died. Giving lie to the easy words ‘I wish they…
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‘If Rape Were Legal’ | Exposing Hypocrisy | The Pain of the Struggle towards Equality
Was reading a piece in The Guardian today outlining just how wide the recent sex abuse scandals have been. This is a very difficult area to write about as one can neither diminish any abuse victim’s own suffering, nor accept that work-based prejudice or sexist comments and the fumbled approaches of someone like Lord Rennard…
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“Don’t Give Me Any of Your Shit” | The Unconscious Unconscious | The School of Life… in Schools
I happened upon this video via a share the other day – three psychoanalysts in conversation at the Science Museum some months ago. It’s not a blinding presentation – little stuffy and the quality is not great – but I was really struck by the (near) opening words of the first speaker (around 3:50…
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Doing Unspeakable Things On Our Behalf – Pirates as Necessary Psychic Safety Valves
Been doing some interesting reading around Jungian psycho-analysis. In particular, I was struck by a couple of passages in which he uses the language of ‘blockage’ – which connects with the terminology I have been using to describe piratic acts. In Modern Man in Search of a Soul he writes this: ‘As long as all goes…