Philosophy
AI training using second-hand books: Why AI firms are buying up second-hand bookshops and the books are being shredded
AI training using second-hand books
8/21/26
AI training using second-hand books: Why AI firms are buying up second-hand bookshops and the books are being shredded
AI training using second-hand books
8/21/26
Psychoanalysis and the Subject: The ‘I’, the ‘Self’ and the Subject in Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis and the Subject
8/20/26
Psychoanalysis and the Subject: The ‘I’, the ‘Self’ and the Subject in Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis and the Subject
8/20/26
Taylor Swift, Psychology and the Desire for a Famous Partner
Taylor Swift
8/14/26
Taylor Swift, Psychology and the Desire for a Famous Partner
Taylor Swift
8/14/26
Performative Mental Illness: When Self-Diagnosis Becomes Self-Presentation
Performative Mental Illness
8/13/26
Performative Mental Illness: When Self-Diagnosis Becomes Self-Presentation
Performative Mental Illness
8/13/26
AI as a secular oracle: Why the critique of sovereignty merely reoccupies the throne
AI as a secular oracle
8/11/26
AI as a secular oracle: Why the critique of sovereignty merely reoccupies the throne
AI as a secular oracle
8/11/26
A Critical Look at the Enneagram Test: Nine Types, a Comforting Myth
A Critical Look at the Enneagram Test
8/10/26
A Critical Look at the Enneagram Test: Nine Types, a Comforting Myth
A Critical Look at the Enneagram Test
8/10/26
Trauma Economy and Catharsis Culture: How Suffering Becomes a Product (Darren McGarvey)
Trauma Economy and Catharsis Culture
8/7/26
Trauma Economy and Catharsis Culture: How Suffering Becomes a Product (Darren McGarvey)
Trauma Economy and Catharsis Culture
8/7/26
The Psychology of Severance: The Split Working Self
The Psychology of Severance
8/6/26
The Psychology of Severance: The Split Working Self
The Psychology of Severance
8/6/26
Nolan’s Odyssey: The $250 Million Story of Nobody’s Dog
Nolan’s Odyssey
8/5/26
Nolan’s Odyssey: The $250 Million Story of Nobody’s Dog
Nolan’s Odyssey
8/5/26
Jouissance in Lacan: Why the Mind Clings to Its Own Suffering
Jouissance in Lacan
8/3/26
Jouissance in Lacan: Why the Mind Clings to Its Own Suffering
Jouissance in Lacan
8/3/26
Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’, psychoanalytically: Myth, Simulacrum and Self-Exposure
Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’, psychoanalytically
7/31/26
Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’, psychoanalytically: Myth, Simulacrum and Self-Exposure
Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’, psychoanalytically
7/31/26
From Scenic Understanding to Control Vector: Why the ‘Large Behaviour Model’ Threatens Psychotherapy
From Scenic Understanding to Control Vector
7/30/26
From Scenic Understanding to Control Vector: Why the ‘Large Behaviour Model’ Threatens Psychotherapy
From Scenic Understanding to Control Vector
7/30/26
Homoeroticism in Religion: Celibacy, Mysticism and the Priest’s Body
Homoeroticism in Religion
7/29/26
Homoeroticism in Religion: Celibacy, Mysticism and the Priest’s Body
Homoeroticism in Religion
7/29/26
Evil AI? Why AI companies are warning against their own models
Evil AI
7/27/26
Evil AI? Why AI companies are warning against their own models
Evil AI
7/27/26
The Uncanny: Why AI Faces Make Us Shudder
The Uncanny
7/24/26
The Uncanny: Why AI Faces Make Us Shudder
The Uncanny
7/24/26
The Superego: the inner authority that can never be satisfied
The Superego
7/23/26
The Superego: the inner authority that can never be satisfied
The Superego
7/23/26
Religion, Transcendence and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Transcendence
7/22/26
Religion, Transcendence and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Transcendence
7/22/26
No Time for Anything but Love
Love
7/21/26
No Time for Anything but Love
Love
7/21/26
Fight Club, psychoanalytically: the split self and male powerlessness
Fight Club, psychoanalytically
7/20/26
Fight Club, psychoanalytically: the split self and male powerlessness
Fight Club, psychoanalytically
7/20/26
The Phallus as a Signifier in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject and Gender: Why a Fundamental Psychoanalytic Concept Is Constantly Misunderstood
The Phallus as a Signifier in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject and Gender
7/17/26
The Phallus as a Signifier in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject and Gender: Why a Fundamental Psychoanalytic Concept Is Constantly Misunderstood
The Phallus as a Signifier in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject and Gender
7/17/26
Narcissus and Narcissism: NPS, from a psychiatric and psychoanalytical perspective: Why nobody chooses grandiosity
Narcissus and Narcissism: NPS, from a psychiatric and psychoanalytical perspective
7/16/26
Narcissus and Narcissism: NPS, from a psychiatric and psychoanalytical perspective: Why nobody chooses grandiosity
Narcissus and Narcissism: NPS, from a psychiatric and psychoanalytical perspective
7/16/26
‘That is Just the Way I Am’: Why an Entire Culture Loves the MBTI, Even Though Science Rejects It
‘That is Just the Way I Am’
7/15/26
‘That is Just the Way I Am’: Why an Entire Culture Loves the MBTI, Even Though Science Rejects It
‘That is Just the Way I Am’
7/15/26
What is Hedonism? Definition, Consumption and the Neoliberal Obligation to Enjoyment
What is Hedonism
7/14/26
What is Hedonism? Definition, Consumption and the Neoliberal Obligation to Enjoyment
What is Hedonism
7/14/26
Why We Love Dr House: Narcissism and Cynicism
Why We Love Dr House
7/13/26
Why We Love Dr House: Narcissism and Cynicism
Why We Love Dr House
7/13/26
Interrupted Enjoyment: Why adverts in paid streaming services appeal to us so much
Interrupted Enjoyment
7/3/26
Interrupted Enjoyment: Why adverts in paid streaming services appeal to us so much
Interrupted Enjoyment
7/3/26
Reality TV, Humiliation and Imitations: A Comparison of Rosin’s Restaurants, Farmer Wants a Wife, GNTM and Gordon Ramsay
Reality TV, Humiliation and Imitations
6/26/26
Reality TV, Humiliation and Imitations: A Comparison of Rosin’s Restaurants, Farmer Wants a Wife, GNTM and Gordon Ramsay
Reality TV, Humiliation and Imitations
6/26/26
Rousseau’s Émile: Freedom as a Technique of Domination
Rousseau’s Émile
6/20/26
Rousseau’s Émile: Freedom as a Technique of Domination
Rousseau’s Émile
6/20/26
Maxxing fatigue: Maxxing with no end in sight, or the end of self-optimisation?
Maxxing fatigue
6/19/26
Maxxing fatigue: Maxxing with no end in sight, or the end of self-optimisation?
Maxxing fatigue
6/19/26
Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, Epstein and the politics of repression
Kubrick
6/17/26
Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, Epstein and the politics of repression
Kubrick
6/17/26
Glamour as a Symptom: Kitsch, Class and the Spectacle
Glamour as a Symptom
6/16/26
Glamour as a Symptom: Kitsch, Class and the Spectacle
Glamour as a Symptom
6/16/26
Fußball-WM 2026
Fußball
6/15/26
Fußball-WM 2026
Fußball
6/15/26
Looksmaxxing and Bone Smashing: discourse creates the trend
Looksmaxxing and Bone Smashing
6/6/26
Looksmaxxing and Bone Smashing: discourse creates the trend
Looksmaxxing and Bone Smashing
6/6/26
Toxic terms in everyday life: therapy-speak & pop psychology relationships
Toxic terms in everyday life
6/6/26
Toxic terms in everyday life: therapy-speak & pop psychology relationships
Toxic terms in everyday life
6/6/26
Suicide by Proxy: Indirect Suicide and Infanticide
Suicide by Proxy
6/5/26
Suicide by Proxy: Indirect Suicide and Infanticide
Suicide by Proxy
6/5/26
Enhanced Games, Dark Enlightenment and Tech-Eugenics
Enhanced Games
6/3/26
Enhanced Games, Dark Enlightenment and Tech-Eugenics
Enhanced Games
6/3/26
Emotional incest and enmeshment: When parents turn children into partners
Emotional incest and enmeshment
5/29/26
Emotional incest and enmeshment: When parents turn children into partners
Emotional incest and enmeshment
5/29/26
AI: Mass hysteria over genetic AI or social progress?
AI
5/21/26
AI: Mass hysteria over genetic AI or social progress?
AI
5/21/26
Trauma, the nervous system and the Bambi reflex: Pete Walker’s Fawn Response in childhood trauma
Trauma, the nervous system and the Bambi reflex
5/19/26
Trauma, the nervous system and the Bambi reflex: Pete Walker’s Fawn Response in childhood trauma
Trauma, the nervous system and the Bambi reflex
5/19/26
The Loneliness Machine: Social Isolation, Loneliness and Inequality in Neoliberal Capitalism
The Loneliness Machine
5/18/26
The Loneliness Machine: Social Isolation, Loneliness and Inequality in Neoliberal Capitalism
The Loneliness Machine
5/18/26
AI-associated psychosis: When chatbots exacerbate delusions to the point of AI psychosis
AI-associated psychosis
5/15/26
AI-associated psychosis: When chatbots exacerbate delusions to the point of AI psychosis
AI-associated psychosis
5/15/26
The ELIZA Chatbot and Joseph Weizenbaum: Machines, Computers, Artificial Intelligence and Their Effect on Us
The ELIZA Chatbot and Joseph Weizenbaum
5/11/26
The ELIZA Chatbot and Joseph Weizenbaum: Machines, Computers, Artificial Intelligence and Their Effect on Us
The ELIZA Chatbot and Joseph Weizenbaum
5/11/26
No Contact: Why Gen Z is cutting ties with friends and parents
No Contact
5/8/26
No Contact: Why Gen Z is cutting ties with friends and parents
No Contact
5/8/26
Babies: The Unconscious and the Intersubjective
Babies
5/6/26
Babies: The Unconscious and the Intersubjective
Babies
5/6/26
The Psychology of Digital Media: When smartphones, digital communication and social media shape our minds, communication and relationships
The Psychology of Digital Media
5/5/26
The Psychology of Digital Media: When smartphones, digital communication and social media shape our minds, communication and relationships
The Psychology of Digital Media
5/5/26
Scrotox: Botox for the testicles, the beauty trend for the intimate area
Scrotox
4/30/26
Scrotox: Botox for the testicles, the beauty trend for the intimate area
Scrotox
4/30/26
AI: Myths, Awareness and Misconceptions
AI
4/28/26
AI: Myths, Awareness and Misconceptions
AI
4/28/26
Alcohol as a cultural asset: Alcohol consumption and its social role in Western societies
Alcohol as a cultural asset
4/27/26
Alcohol as a cultural asset: Alcohol consumption and its social role in Western societies
Alcohol as a cultural asset
4/27/26
Emotionally absent parents: consequences for children
Emotionally absent parents
4/21/26
Emotionally absent parents: consequences for children
Emotionally absent parents
4/21/26
The Myth of the Dragon Slayer: A Cultural Analysis
The Myth of the Dragon Slayer
4/24/26
The Myth of the Dragon Slayer: A Cultural Analysis
The Myth of the Dragon Slayer
4/24/26
Solitude or loneliness?
Solitude
4/20/26
Solitude or loneliness?
Solitude
4/20/26
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