Reads tagged with “psychology”
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on Anger, Forgiveness, the Emotional Machinery of Trust, and the Only Fruitful Response to Betrayal in Intimate Relationships
“All too often, anger becomes an alluring substitute for grieving, promising agency and control when one’s real situation does not offer control… Anger is often well-grounded, but it is too easy for it to hijack the necessary mourning process.”
The Psychology of Time and How the Interplay of Spontaneity and Self-Control Mediates Our Capacity for Presence
“Consciousness is tied to corporeality and temporality: I experience myself as existing with a body over time.”
The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear
“Andersen had the courage to write stories with unhappy endings. He didn’t believe that you should try to be good because it pays … but because evil stems from intellectual and emotional stuntedness and is the one form of poverty that should be shunned.”
Van Gogh on Heartbreak and Unrequited Love as a Vitalizing Force for Creative Work
“Nothing awakens us to the reality of life so much as a true love.”
How Music Helps Us Grieve
“The springs of our reaction to music lie deeper than thought.”
It’s Only a Draft, After All: Graham Greene on Love and Death in Existential Reflections from His Dream Diary
“It can be a comfort sometimes to know that there is a world which is purely one’s own — the experience in that world, of travel, danger, happiness, is shared with no one else.”
The Remarkable Love Letters of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger
“Why is love rich beyond all other possible human experiences and a sweet burden to those seized in its grasp? Because we become what we love and yet remain ourselves.”
Nietzsche on Dreams as an Evolutionary Time Machine for the Human Brain
“Dreams carry us back to the earlier stages of human culture and afford us a means of understanding it more clearly.”
Healthcare and the Human Spirit: Walt Whitman on the Most Important Priority in Healing the Body and the Soul
“There is something in personal love, caresses, and the magnetic flood of sympathy and friendship, that does, in its way, more good than all the medicine in the world.”
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