What Every Schoolchild Should Know — I am trying to write here something that I wish my father, mother, or an educator would have told me when I was young. Now, after 30 years of working in the mental health field, I may have a few echoes worth jotting down. I once thought it was possible…

Part II: A Crack in the Translation-Tradition — This article is Part II of a five-part series on Freud’s Oedipus Complex. Though Part I Getting the ‘Psycho’ Out of Psychoanalysis is found here, the articles can be read separately. 1. The Warped Translation of Freud’s Oedipus Complex People talk a lot about psychoanalysis. In fact, it has become so ingrained in the culture today that even…

The Old Way To Celebrate Christmas — I f given a chance, perhaps out of protest over the commericialism and excess that Christmas brings, would you like to burn and hang an effigy of Santa Claus in public? If this has ever come to mind, you are not alone. Far from being the cause for a holiday…

Analysis Since Jacques Lacan — In effect, classical psychoanalysis, preoccupied above all with interpsychology, that is to say with individual psychological reactions determined by social life and family life, has not directed its attention to objective knowledge. It has not seen what there was special for the human who quits his/her fellow humans for objects…

A Different Strategy for Climate Justice — [Dec.24, 2019 — This article is a first draft text currently undergoing a degree of re-writing. I will add here a note once it has stabilized for a final print.] §1. Do Preferences And A Consensus of Scientists Ever Help? I like ecologists and must admit nothing is more tender that watching a young Greta Thunberg pout her way into…

A Fairy Tale: When Goldilocks Meets The Narcissist — Goldilocks And The Three Bears Often The Narcissist is portrayed as some Bad Old Bear startling Goldilocks. Here is a snippet of a typical article on Medium attempting to describe The Narcissist: Narcissists are people with a wide array of traits, skills and properties that make them both compelling and poisonous. The real narcissist is…

Introducing The Absolute Censor — In Medium’s guidelines it states: Medium is a free and open platform for anyone to write their views and opinions. As such we don’t vet or approve posts before our users publish them. …

Fourteen Codes Of Conduct To Empower Your Life — How To Speak Like A Cosmonaut Did you ever wonder why people these days are finding it difficult to use the first person singular pronoun ‘I’ in the English language? And that most prefer instead to speak from a place where they are not by using the second person singular and plural pronoun ‘You.’ For example…