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Altered States of Consciousness: The Neuropsychology of How Time Perception Modulates Our Experience of Self, from Depression to Boredom to Creative Flow
“The brain does not simply represent the world in a disembodied way as an intellectual construct… Our mind is body-bound. We think, feel, and act with our body in the world. All experience is embedded in this body-related being-in-the-world.”
The Invention of Empathy: Rilke, Rodin, and the Art of “Inseeing”
How a doctor, a philosopher, a poet, and a sculptor co-created the modern concept of empathy.
Freud on Memory, How Childhood Imprints the Subconscious, and Why We Dream
“Every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the psychic activities of the waking state.”
Someone Reading a Book is a Sign of Order in the World: Poet Mary Ruefle on Why We Read
“We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love — a connection between things.”
Henry James on Memory, Growing Older, and What Happiness Really Means
“I have led too serious a life; but that perhaps, after all, preserves one’s youth.”
Bluets: Maggie Nelson on the Color Blue as a Lens on Memory, Loneliness, and the Paradoxes of Love
“To wish to forget how much you loved someone — and then, to actually forget — can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”
Lying in Politics: Hannah Arendt on Deception, Self-Deception, and the Psychology of Defactualization
“No matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough … to cover the immensity of factuality.”
Addiction to Truth: David Carr, the Measure of a Person, and the Uncommon Art of Elevating the Common Record
“We all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn’t end any time soon.”
The Art of Practical Wisdom
The psychology of how we use frames, categories, and storytelling to make sense of the world.
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