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“What Are We Really Arguing About Now?”
“What Are We Really Arguing About Now?” My recent columns were about “argument” in the philosopher’s sense of reasoning. Thinking they might find them of special interest, I’ve sent the columns to philosopher friends. And was pleased, but not surprised, … Continue reading
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It’s August and My Shrink is in the Hamptons!
It’s August and My Shrink is in the Hamptons! There was a time in Manhattan when virtually everyone I knew was in Freud-based therapy. So people would have trouble getting through August, because that was when their shrinks were vacationing … Continue reading
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Tagged "Philosophic Foundations of Feminism", August in Manhattan, bad arguments, counterculture, do your own thing, Dora and Freud, Edward Erwin, Freud and women, Freud-based therapy, Freud’s “Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria”, Freud’s case studies, Freud’s life, Freudian diagnosis, hysteria, life validation, Manhattan, nonjudgmental, Norman Lebrecht’s “Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World 1847-1947”, philosophical assumptions, philosophy at Stony Brook, poetic verdict, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic cures, quack cures, quackery, SUNY at Stony Brook, the “Wolf Man”, the Hamptons
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“Cynicism”
“Cynicism” The other day a young woman I know, an artist and philosopher who picks up a dollar working at the cafe I frequent, said to me that some of the people she meets act so deplorably that she’s getting … Continue reading
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