A Puff of Absurdity

"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." Twain / "I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of these contradictions out for myself." Montaigne / "I write because I have found no other means of getting rid of my thoughts." Nietzsche / "Writing is an integral part of the process of understanding." Arendt / "Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers." Asimov.

A Searchable List of Blog Posts

On Useful Anger: Cohen's All the Rage

Developing the Capacity for Rational Choices

On Burnout: "Can" is the New "Should"

On Identity: Erikson, Freud, and Sartre

Yalom's Gift

Covid Defences Matching Game

The One with the Apocalypse

Frankl's Logotherapy

Frankl's Phases of Life in the Camps

Where is My Mind? On Freud and Neuropsychology

The John Snow Project on Spooky Masks

Odell's How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

On Hari's Lost Connections

On Freud and Einstein's Correspondence

On Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness

On Gender Pronouns and Peterson's Case

Swiss Army Man

The Century of the Self - A Brief History of Psychoanalysis and Corporate Control

Has the Green Revolution Actually Arrived?

On Ethos - a 2011 Documentary