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Year end thoughts (Pt. 1)
The end of 2025 is rapidly approaching; it's cold outside here in the American Midwest, and I find myself doing a kind of typical (for me) end-of-the-year thinking. This is the kind of thinking that is both backward-looking and forward-looking, where I reflect on the year that has
Later?
When I was young, there would be something I needed to do, and I'd say to myself, "I'll do it later." Then I would go and take a nap, or make a bagel, or watch something on TV. Time went by, and then I&
Vicente Palomera on turning misery into ordinary unhappiness
From the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera, which I posted about earlier this week.
Freud has been variously paraphrased as saying that psychoanalysis could treat neurotic misery, but that it could not treat ordinary human unhappiness. [...] This is a phrase of terrible realism and pessimism,