Magic Magic the power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces. So, we start with magic : the idea that supernatural forces exist, and they can influence events. How is the idea of magic different from money ? If we have money, we believe that it can influence events, if I go […]
Psychology
Genetic Epistemology
In this article I try to summarize the main idea’s in Piaget’s 1968 series of lectures about his Genetic epistemology. Piaget’s approach claims that knowledge is so far a process which is constantly changing and has no linear direction. Understanding the nature of scientific knowledge has to do with our ability to conceptualize, for example […]
Assassin’s Creed : Psychology
WORK IN PROGRESS This article discusses the PC / Console game franchise Assassin’s Creed in the context of psychology. Carl Gustav Jung ( built a theory or a model in which he finds a link between how our biology, psyche, dreams, religion & symbols are linked together, in a way that can give us meaning, […]
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Rick and Morty SE03E03
In Rick and Morty, season 03, episode 03, we encounter a conversation between Rick and a Therapist. Rick tries to explain how he got himself into a situation where he became a pickle and went to an adventure. In that scene we encounter in what seems to be a conversation with a distinct Nietzschean flavor. […]
A model of transcendence
Inspired mainly by the insights of C.G.Jung, I drew a scheme where I show what I use as a model of the human psyche and I will provide a basic explanation along with that.
Over guilt, shame and conscience
“nobody can rule guiltlessly” -Saint just This is the opening quite from Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at noon” and he was mentioning it in the context of the horror and The absurd of a totalitarian regime, the guilt in that sense is a strong psychological mechanism that is related to political ethics or political morality. Guilt […]