Category: Psychoanalysis
Born in Lancashire in 1917, Leonora Carrington is perhaps now best known as a surrealist artist; in 2024, one of her artworks sold for $28.5 million. During her career, however, she also wrote novels, short stories, a play and a memoir, all infused with her dreamlike, idiosyncratic worldview. First published in English in 1976 but […]
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
The biopic “Deliver Me From Nowhere” chronicles Bruce Springsteen’s struggles with depression while creating the album “Nebraska.” It explores themes of male friendship, creative drive, and the impact of his tumultuous relationship with his father. The film emphasizes the importance of belief and support in overcoming mental health challenges.
Deliver Me From Nowhere: A Study of Mental Health Through Music
Born on November 7, 1913, Albert Camus gave English a new moral language — lucid, humane, and quietly rebellious. Through translation, his French voice reshaped English prose, teaching it to speak of absurdity, dignity, and revolt with clarity. In his words, truth became courage, and simplicity, strength.
Birth of Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) – The Philosopher-Poet of the Absurd
Neurosis and Human Growth Towards the end of Karen’s career, she mapped out the super-ego/ideal-self and demonstrated how pathological and inhuman it was. And when a super-ego takes hold of a culture, those inhuman standards are exacted against oneself and policed throughout the public. It can eventually become a normalized way of being, so that […]
Cultural Psychoanalysis: Karen Horney Pt. 11
On November 2, 1960, a London jury declared Lady Chatterley’s Lover “not guilty” of obscenity — freeing not only a book but the English language itself. The verdict ended an era of censorship and began one of honesty, where love, class, and desire could finally be written in plain speech.
The Lady Chatterley’s Lover Trial (1960) – Breaking the Silence of English Literature
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Freud and Neuroscience
This is a follow up case-study from my previous post, so do go back and take a look if this topic resonates with you. Many of the young people and families who come to me are already exhausted. It’s only October as I’m writing this. I, as a business owner, am already quite tired and […]
Joy as an Antidote to Burnout in Education- Empowering Neurodivergent Learners
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