“That there can be unconscious knowledge at all and the recognition of the great importance of unconscious knowing in mental life, together constitute one of the most

basic assumptions of psychoanalytic theory. However, from the philosophical viewpoint most modern epistemologists [and most contemporary work in philosophy of mind] [...]

Linda A.W. Brakel, who by training and profession is both a psychoanalyst and a philosopher, demonstrates how this particular combination can yield important insights that

uniquely benefit psychoanalytic theory and therapy as well as philosophy. Philosophically her work is on par with such stellar exemplars in the philosophical examination [...]

Eine neue Untersuchung von Psychologen aus Jena und Victoria (Kanada) [1] bestätigt das Phänomen des Offsetting-Behavior, das in der Rechtssoziologie längst bekannt ist.

Sicherheitsvorschriften werden oft von den potentiellen Opfern unterlaufen. Das gilt etwa für Unfallverhütungsvorschriften am Arbeitsplatz.[2] Deutlicher noch zeigt [...]

Jesus’ teaching on poverty and wealth was anchored in the Scriptures, in particular, it shared with Psalms and the Prophets the key idea that God was somehow on the side

of the poor. At the same time, however, Jesus’ message about the dangers of wealth was radical and provocative at the time (and of course remains so two millennia [...]

Der diesjährige »Tannhäuser« in Bayreuth hat mich einen langen Abend an den Fernseher gefesselt. Die Musik war berauschend, Venus und Elisabeth waren umwerfend. Der Titelheld

zwischen zwei begehrenden Frauen – das war ein starker neuer Akzent, den der unvorbereitete Hörer begreifen konnte, ohne dass es des Quickies zwischen Elisabeth [...]

Prison offers, curiously, a time to make art, with men on life sentences sometimes being the most serious about developing their craft. Boredom also assures the motivation

of Tobola’s poets: ‘Unlike my college students, who were required to take composition, my inmate students came to class because they wanted to learn.’ But the [...]

Now Dayton, Ohio: it makes one think these mass shootings are somehow planned, but I am not sure (sans compelling evidence) they are coordinated, perhaps arising out of

acts of conspiracy, except, as it were, social psychologically (one act, inspiring another, and so forth), but it is clearly white supremacist, xenophobic nationalism [...]

Linda A.W. Brakel provides us with an amusing illustration of the dynamic (i.e., psychologically meaningful) unconscious (as one of the three principal assumptions of psychoanalysis): “Take

a very common sort of slip of the tongue I experienced. I was in the backyard calling my husband whom I saw to be occupied with some yard activity. [...]

From “The Problem of Mindfulness” by Sahanika Ratnayakeis for Aeon:“In claiming to offer a multipurpose, multi-user remedy for all occasions, mindfulness oversimplifies

the difficult business of understanding oneself. It fits oh-so-neatly into a culture of techno-fixes, easy answers and self-hacks, where we can all just tinker [...]

Meine ersten Erlebnisse in der Justiz hatte ich als Referendar und später als Richter. Da gehörte ich dazu, war sozusagen Insider, und (fast) alles, was dort geschah, erschien

mir sinnvoll, funktional und bald auch selbstverständlich. Selbstverständlich auch, dass man bemüht war, den »Kunden« freundlich und mit Hilfestellungen zu begegnen. [...]