Unearned Wisdom

Between Pleasure and Pain: The Story of the Sacrificial Animal

August 28, 2021January 31, 2020 by Farah

Pleasure and Rationality In trying to understand human nature more deeply, I have read what some philosophers and psychologists have had to say, to get a starting point. To understand what man is, it is first necessary to understand what he wants, and more crucially, what he does not want. One of the first ideas … Read more

Chapter 8: Alfred Adler and Individual Psychology (The Discovery of the Unconscious)

August 7, 2021October 10, 2019 by Farah

Alfred Adler and Carl Jung both had independent ideas and were not psychoanalytic deviants, as is commonly believed. They collaborated with Freud, but maintained their independence, and after their break, they developed their own systems of psychoanalysis. Freud’s goal was to incorporate into scientific psychology the insights alluded to by Shakespeare, the Greek tragedians, Goethe, … Read more