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Narrative Psychology
Labels help your brain make sense of a complex world, but when self-attached, those same labels can convince you that you're unable to grow.
An interview with renowned mythologist Martin Shaw about persona, presence, and how to spend life's finite time.
"I am free. It's a lot of effort to be free from the prison that is in your mind, and the key is in your pocket." - Edith Eva Eger
Grief never ends. There is no closure, but there are things we can do to mitigate the feeling of loss.
These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
Evolutionary psychology could explain those otherworldly feelings.
What Odysseus needed from his father was something more important: the comfort of being a son.
We imagine and debate the inner lives of literary characters, knowing there can be no truth about their real motives or beliefs. Could our own inner lives also be works of fiction?
Just don't expect the apocalypse to look like it does in the movies.
Jean Paul Sartre summed up the existentialist idea of "bad faith" through a waiter who acted a bit too much like a waiter.