The Childish Pursuit of Happiness
‘”Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better...
View ArticleThe Birth of Self
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God...
View ArticleEnchantment and Disenchantment: Do You Live in Wonder?
Do you not intuit in the darkness the eternal sources of our transient being- Freidrich Nietzsche, Being or Existence. Do you have the capacity to still be astonished by life, by this world we live in,...
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What does the Perfect Life Look Like Today?
Anja was listening to radio 702 the other day (isn’t she always). Anyway she told me about a caller to the show, who said, the problem with the youth today is that they no longer have role models. Or,...
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Death: a Jungian perspective. What Face-the Grim Reaper?
When you lie in bed, alone, late at night, contemplating your own mortality, as the Grim Reaper grins at you, what face do you see? I frequently suggest both in my posts and to those I work with...
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On the Nature of Love: an unromantic critique
When you love someone what is it that you love? Let me tell you why I ask. I think that often when we relate to other people we objectify them. This is most noticeable on virtual social networks such...
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The experience machine and Jung’s symbolic attitude
I heard from one of my lecturers at Wits recently about a book called Better never to have been: the harm of coming into existence, written by a local lad, Professor David Benatar, HOD of the...
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Consciousness and Freedom: Jung, Sartre, Steiner.
Freedom, that is the idea of freedom, the possibility of freedom, is a topic which strikes me as worth considering. It is, after all, arguably, the most important question philosophy can ask; and a...
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The Fantasy of Shirley Valentine
A friend of mine recently went overseas for 10 days to visit some family. Soon after she returned, she confessed that she felt overwhelmed at home. She wanted to go back to Europe and leave her...
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The Myth of the Sexually Aggressive Male
We are all familiar with the conventional ideology of the sexually aggressive dominant man and his sexually submissive female counterpart. Naturally in contemporary western society this ideology has...
View ArticleLove Alchemy: and Why New Age Love is Basically Bullshit
Love is not abstract it is particular. I hate to shatter your illusions, but when Michael Jackson shouted out I LOVE YOU on stage, as he was want to do, he wasn’t referring to you in particular, so I...
View ArticleProzac and the royal road to misery
modern (wo)man in search of soul in the wasteland of meaning Epigraph: In 2006 I had occasion to spend Diwali in Mauritius with my then sister-in-law, Joanne Farah. One of the celebrants at the hotel...
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