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Why War?

In 1932, amidst a world edging toward another catastrophic war, Albert Einstein wrote to Sigmund Freud with a deceptively simple question: Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war? Freud’s response, later published as Why War?, offers a psychoanalytic lens on humanity’s destructive impulses. While deeply rooted in drive theory and […]

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“People are strange when you’re a stranger, faces look ugly when you’re alone…”

Ever wondered why some song lyrics appear in your mind unexpectedly and you find yourself crooning thinking where did this song come from? Driving outside a high school I started singing the lyrics of Jim Morrison’s song “People are strange.” Coincidence? Schools bring up memories and feelings (some unconscious) from our own childhood and adolescence.

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