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Art & Psychology
“Art being a thing of the mind, it follows that any scientific study of art will be psychology. It may be other things as well, but psychology it will always be.” - Max J. Friedländer, Von Kunst und...
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Truth lies
Andrew Solomon speaks profoundly about depression and forging identity in these two TED-talks. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away...
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Cognitive illusionism
“(…) your brain is constantly making up its own reality whether it receives actual reality-driven input from your senses or not. In the absence of sensory input, your brain’s own world making...
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An Inner Space Odyssey
THAT WHICH IS ALLOWED, EXISTS. IN ALLOWING NO LIMITS, THERE ARE NO LIMITS…THAT WHICH IS ALLOWED, EXISTS. THAT WHICH EXISTS IS ALLOWED. TO ALLOW NO LIMITS, THERE ARE NO LIMITS. NO LIMITS ALLOWED, NO...
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Belov’d in vain
Narcissus by Caravaggio “Narcissism” a) Excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one’s physical appearance. b) Psychology: extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one’s own talents and...
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Tarot: How to create a soul
“I have always been drawn to things I found interesting but couldn’t understand. The tarot fascinated me because it was very strange. (…) You see all the tarot at once and realize it is a unit. And...
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Pain’s volume control
“The mind has tremendous control over the sensations of pain that you consciously feel and how unpleasant they are. It has a ‘volume’ control that governs both the intensity and duration of the...
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The Cutting Edge
“Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you’re always looking at.” – Anthony Minghella “For a writer it’s the word. For a composer or a musician,...
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We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces flooded upon us by radio and television and satellite, yet never before have we had so...
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‘A choice confronts us’
“We are called upon to do something new, to confront a no man’s land, to push into a forest where there are no well-worn paths and from which no one has returned to guide us. This is what the...
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‘Man cannot stand a meaningless life’
Illustration From C.G. Jung’s Red Book Liber Novus p.119 In a BBC-interview with John Friedman in 1959, the renowned Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung, then 84 years old, words...
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Sanity’s not a choice
Sources: Shutter Island. Scorsese, Martin (dir.). Paramount Pictures. 2001.
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Do you know how pain enters the body?
Sources: Shutter Island. Scorsese, Martin (dir.). Paramount Pictures. 2001.
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‘Kindly let me help you or you will drown’, said the monkey, putting the fish...
Here’s my transcript of philosopher Alan Watts‘ (1915-1973) talk on how to improve yourself: “So it all comes down to this basic question: That human beings have for a long long time been concerned...
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‘The happiest species on the planet’
“I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and chimpanzee only later or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not evolve as much around...
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