Society Seduction
The book of Judges relates to a regular pattern of Israelites turning away from God, who then used a hostile tribe, the Midianites, to punish them. The liberating figure of …
Category: Psychology
Psychological introspections and insights
Stress Response
Aware of this, the Gibeonites pretended to Joshua that they were not from the next city but rather a distant people. They engaged in a careful deception, appearing dishevelled and …
The Love Trophy
In the meantime our good ship, with that perfect wind to drive her, fast approached the Sirens’ Isle. But now the breeze dropped, some power lulled the waves, and a …
High At Dawn
One classic response to a particularly vicious beanball was exemplified by a play Jackie Robinson made in the summer of 1953. Sal Maglie of the New York Giants was “Sal …
Triangular Desire
The greater challenge was to get Pharoah to respond. The strategy, a standard form of coercion involving a progressive “turning of the screw” in an attempt to find the target’s …
Desirable Triangle
If your organization is small in numbers, then do what Gideon did: conceal the members in the dark but raise a din and clamour that will make the listener believe …
Target Of Desire
For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth. But I have …
The Lonely Impression
What has actually happened? The feeling of worthlessness was realised when it was understood that neither the notion of “purpose” nor that of “Unity” nor that of “Truth” could be …
Quality Sensualist
Anyone who has fully understood from the introductory essay the complete identity of the content of the principle of sufficient reason in all its different forms must also be convinced …
Mysterious Worshipper
There are indeed men who are attached more by resistance than by yielding and who unwittingly prefer a variable sky, now splendid, now black and vexed by lightning, to love’s …