The Pampered Don Juan
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) Seduction: Different targets should change the whole dynamic No …
Category: Psychology
Psychological introspections and insights
Vicious Cycles V.s. Virtuous Cycles
Thorough Nihilism is the conviction that life is abusrd, in the light of the highest values already discovered; it also includes the view that we have not the smallest right …
Disappointed Dreamer Meets Nihilism
Nihilistic consequences of history and of the “practical historian” i.e. the romanticist. The attitude of art is quite unoriginal in modern life. Its gloominess. Goethe’s so-called Olympian state. Nihilism as …
Victim Theory
The best part of a benefit is lost if the benefit can be sued for law, as in the case of a loan, or of letting and hiring. Indeed, the …
Libido Therapy
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant (They create desolation and call it peace). TACITUS, CIRCA A.D. 55 Sigmund Freud(1856 – 1939) Psychoanalysis is compared to a surgical operation. The creation of neurosis …
Seducing The Enemy
Legend has it that Shaka altered the nature of fighting in the region forever, by inventing a heavy, broad-bladed spear designed to withstand the stresses of close-quarter combat. Perhaps he …
Catastrophizing
It is because we have for thousands of years looked into the world with moral, aesthetic, and religious predispositions, with blind prejudice, passion or fear, and surfeited ourselves with indulgence …
Neuro Fear
So saying he reached forth with his hands, yet clasped him not; but the spirit like a vapour was gone beneath the earth, gibbering faintly, and seized, with amazement, Achilles …
Infantile Unconscious
Freud (1915) described the conscious mind, which consists of all the mental processes of which we are aware. For Freud, the child loves himself first then later learns to love …
Attachment Theory
Adults show patterns of attachment to their romantic partners similar to the attachment of children to their parents. About 50% of the population according to “Attachment theory” are Secure, usually …