Paths

The word “path” refers to both the physical and psychological. Our trajectory in life is called a path but we both follow a worn path trodden by pre...

Doubt in Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard approached doubt in the opposite way of Descartes. Descartes’ methodical doubt is an abstract product of reason, therefore conquerable by a sy...

Reality principle

The previous post highlighted some of Freud’s post-World War I speculation about the reality principle and the death instinct. In short, the pleasure prin...