Tag: Psychology
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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…
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“Lord I just…” | Do you believe in Prayer? | Speaking into the unknown
A couple of times recently I’ve been in situations where people have said ‘let’s pray together.’ It’s struck me that there are some interesting group dynamics going on when we do that, which I thought would be good to air. Firstly, if God is God, then why do we need to pray aloud? The answer…
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Let’s Talk About the Weather… | ‘Metereoethics’
In the conversation menu for The School of Life dinner I attended earlier in the week there were a number of aphorisms and quotations to get people thinking, and a few rules too. One rule was based on Oscar Wilde’s famous quote: Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. I actually…
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Good Samaritans, Theoretically
Another very interesting piece from Philosophy Bites, discussing moral psychology. Recent research shows that rather than having an ethical code that we simply stick to or don’t, our codes are very contingent on circumstance. For example, it has been shown that people who have recently been on the receiving end of a ‘gift’ – like…