Search results for “psychic”
The Fluid Dynamics of “The Starry Night”: How Vincent Van Gogh’s Masterpiece Explains the Scientific Mysteries of Movement and Light
“In a period of intense suffering, Van Gogh was somehow able to perceive and represent one of the most supremely difficult concepts nature has ever brought before mankind.”
Georgia O’Keeffe on Art, Life, and Setting Priorities
“Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.”
Darwin’s Battle with Anxiety
A posthumous diagnosis of the paralyzing mental malady that afflicted one of humanity’s greatest minds.
The Poetics of Reverie: Philosopher Gaston Bachelard on Love, Solitude, and Happiness
“Love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.”
Legendary Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner on Identity, “Creative Wholeness,” and How We Limit Our Happiness
How our cult of creativity, which replaced religion, is becoming a source of anguish rather than happiness.
An Illustrated Celebration of the Little-Known Mothers, Brothers, Friends, Wives, and Other Unsung Champions Behind Geniuses
Vladimir Nabokov’s wife, Alan Turing’s first love, Andy Warhol’s mother, Maurice Sendak’s brother, Emily Dickinson’s dog, and more.
Zadie Smith on the Psychology of the Two Types of Writers
“It’s a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.”
A Field Guide to Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on How We Find Ourselves
“The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation… Never to get lost is not to live.”
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on Why a Capacity for Boredom Is Essential for a Full Life
“Boredom … protects the individual, makes tolerable for him the impossible experience of waiting for something without knowing what it could be.”
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