Freud’s “Death Wish”
Freud’s introduction of the idea of a “death instinct” into psychoanalysis occured as a relatively late development. Prior to its introduction, the pleasure principle, coupled...
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Laing’s Divided Self: Anxiety and Ontological Insecurity
R.D. Laing and Primary Ontological Insecurity R.D. Laing’s 3 Forms of Anxiety Anxiety has been described as an effect of our engagement with technology, but...
Self-Knowledge as the Key to Overcoming Obstacles in Therapy
Assagioli and Self-Realization Roberto Assagioli’s Psychosynthesis, published in 1965, takes into account a wide range of theories that developed in the wake of Freudian psychoanalysis...
How is Phenomenolgy Actually Done?
Ernest Keen’s Fun-Filled Overnight as a Paradigm It is not uncommon to introduce a paper on the application of phenomenological methods to psychology with a...
3 Ways Reading Heidegger Can Help with Anxiety
How would you describe anxiety? Psychology Today describes it as characterized by “increased arousal and apprehension…distressing worry, and …unpleasant activation of multiple body systems—all to...