Age of Reason
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Truth Anchors: Correspondence, Coherence and Progress in the Digital Storm
In this essay, I want to inquire into the relation between public and private truth by drawing together schools of philosophy, the psychoanalytic process, and the impact of advanced digital technology. The therapeutic journey, like society’s broader truth-seeking, reveals how we negotiate between empirical reality and subjective experience. Likewise, the digital age demands similar discernment… Continue reading
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The Myth of Control | w4dey
Control is a cultural construct; a way of creating meaning and order in our societies and ourselves. Control is a word that we use to describe and prescribe our relation to the world, a word that shapes our language, our symbols, our stories, our values. Control is a word that tells us who we are… Continue reading
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Reflections from a therapy room 