Cosmic Insignificance
Nietzsche on the nature of reflection: “When we try to examine the mirror in itself we discover nothing but things upon it. If we want to grasp the things we finally get hold of nothing but the mirror....
View ArticleA Radical Metamorphosis Of Identity
In her groundbreaking 2012 book The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage, Catherine Malabou assumes different roles. She’s part psychoanalyst, part neurobiologist, part philosopher. Malabou...
View ArticleSensitive Subject
In my encounters with other depressed and anxious people I have found behind their struggles a deep sense of compassion. Are they compassionate as a result of living with mental illness or is their...
View ArticlePatient, Interrupted
There are strange doctors in every specialty. Offbeat cardiologists. Creepy podiatrists. Sketchy dermatologists. Then there’s almost every psychiatrist I’ve seen. Socially awkward? Speak incredibly...
View ArticleThe Spirit Of Melancholy
I took away three main ideas from Alina N. Feld’s brilliant analysis of depression in Melancholy and the Otherness of God. First, philosophers from Ancient Greece to modern times have seen the...
View ArticleDown In The Trumps
Writing in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, Franco “Bifo” Berardi tells us in The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy that “there will be no full employment in the future.” The...
View ArticleManic Monday
Just Another Manic Monday (Through Sunday) I am the free will of my Self I am the life of my Self I am the breathing breath of my Self I am the paper pen yellow tablet of my writing Self I am the Right...
View ArticleRecovering Melancholic
Recovery Mode I once performed mental gymnastics upside down on a tightrope over the Grand Canyon I once unzipped my flesh and stepped out naked in spirit astonished at the jumble of my bones I once...
View ArticleCore Beliefs
Core Beliefs my therapist says overthinking can be a defense mechanism overthinking can be a defense mechanism overthinking can be an unfenced metaphorical prison it’s not my fault my therapist says...
View ArticleA Leap And A Precipice
When I became the lead opinion writer for my college newspaper, my father suggested I call my column “The Road Not Taken” after one of his favorite Robert Frost poems. I thought about it but went in a...
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