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Sunday, May 3, 2026
Human–AI Co-evolution and Symbiosis: The Machine Is Not Outside Us
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Artificial intelligence is not arriving as an alien intelligence that simply lands on top of human life, like a shiny corporate UFO with a s...
Phenomenology of Interface-Shaped Cognition: How Screens Teach the Mind to Move
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The interface is not a window. It is a weather system. It does not simply show us the world; it trains the body in how to approach the world...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Shame and Guilt in Psychoanalytic Thought
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Few emotional distinctions are as clinically important in psychoanalysis as the difference between shame and guilt. Both are self-conscious ...
Applied Psychoanalysis: Working with Inhibition, Shame, Obsessionality, Perfectionism, and Rigidity
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Certain clinical presentations in psychoanalytic practice are organized less around dramatic symptoms and more around constriction . Patient...
Friday, February 27, 2026
Gramsci's Relevance to Contemporary Politics
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Gramsci 's hegemony theory proves particularly relevant for analyzing contemporary media landscapes. Corporate media conglomerates func...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Types of Defensive Styles in Psychoanalytic Practice
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In applied psychoanalytic work, clinicians often encounter not isolated defence mechanisms but defensive styles —coherent patterns through w...
Defence-Based Analytical Work: Listening for Protection Before Meaning
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Defence-based analytical work begins with a shift in stance. Rather than treating symptoms, behaviors, or relational patterns primarily as e...
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