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Tag Archives: Psychology
1878: Dream
I had the earliest dream I can remember, a dream which was to preoccupy me all my life. I was then between three and four years old. The vicarage stood quite alone near Laufen castle, and there was a big … Continue reading
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Carl Jung, Dreams, Mothers, Psychology, Switzerland
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1970: Knots
A selection from R. D. Laing’s Knots (1970). Here is another: Mother loves me because she is good I am bad, to think she is bad therefore if I am good she is good and loves me because I am … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Books, Great Britain, Mental Health, Mothers, Poetry, Psychology, R. D. Laing, Scotland, Writing
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2106: Transitional Object
In 2016, Cornelia Parker installed this replica of the house from Hitchcock’s Psycho on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city. It’s made from repurposed wood from a red barn; the title of the work … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Alfred Hitchcock, Architecture, Art, Conceptual Art, Cornelia Parker, Film, Great Britain, Houses, Museums, New York City, Psychology, Women
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1816: The Visions of Thomas Martin
Thomas Martin was born in Gallardon, France in 1783. Beginning in 1816, he began to see visions of an elegantly dressed young man who called himself the Archangel Raphael. The youth commanded Martin to travel to Paris to see King … Continue reading
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Tagged 1810's, 19th Century, Angels, France, King Louis XVIII, Oddities, Psychology, Thomas Martin
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2017: Be a Resilient Cooperator
Do human beings act purely out of self-interest? The Prisoners’ Dilemma is a classic puzzle designed to test and explore this question: Two members of a criminal gang are arrested and imprisoned. Each prisoner is in solitary confinement with no … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Andrew Mao, Capitalism, Duncan J. Watts, Economics, Lili Dworkin, Prisons, Psychology, Science, Siddharth Suri, Socialism & Communism, USA
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1920: Drag
Afanasy Shaur, a member of the Russian Baltic Fleet, organized this gay wedding in Petrograd in 1921. The event featured elements of a traditional Russian wedding, such as a special bread presented with a dish of salt for the betrothed … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Books, Dan Healey, Joseph Stalin, LGBTQ, Marriage, Medicine, Psychology, Revolution, Socialism & Communism, Soviet Union
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1961: Schizoanalysis
“The salvation of our world lies in the hands of the maladjusted.” MLK speaks at the 1961 Transportation Workers Union convention: There are certain words in every academic discipline which soon become stereotypes and clichés. Every [academic] discipline has its … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Labor, Martin Luther King Jr., Mental Health, NAACP, Psychology, Unions, USA
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1933: The Very Ideology to which it Owes its Origin
Wilhelm Reich on the connections among repression, sexual guilt (indoctrinated into children and adolescents through the family), patriarchy, capitalism, fascism, violent religious fanaticism, the construction of the other, and imperialism: The patriarchal authoritarian sexual order…becomes the primary basis of authoritarian … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Austria, Books, Capitalism, Demons, Fascism, Patriarchy, Psychology, Religion, Sex, Wilhelm Reich
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1904: A Nightmare
In 1904…I was staying at the Hotel Scholastika, on the borders of the Aachensee, in Austria. I dreamed one night that I was walking down a sort of pathway between two fields, separated from these last by high iron railings, … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Animals, Austria, Books, Dreams, Great Britain, Horses, J. W. Dunne, Oddities, Psychology, Time
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2010: Can’t Buy Me Love
“This research provides the first evidence that money interferes with people’s ability to savor positive emotions and experiences. In a large sample of working adults, we found that wealthier individuals reported lower savoring ability. Indeed, the negative impact of money … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 21st Century, Art, Happiness, Money, Painting, Psychology, USA, Victor Dubreuil
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