"Friedrich Nietzsche genuflecting in the style of a Roman Catholic icon" – Looks more like Luther nailing the 95 theses to the door in Wittenburg. Well, he was the son of a Lutheran minister. Nietzsche's critique of pity Nietzsche’s alternative account of mitleid illuminates what people are doing when they perform an act of empathy, and his account does this by cutting against our beliefs about what we think we are doing in the empathic act. Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
Medicine for me, poison for you Philosophy is like a poison -- a medicine for some may be a poison for others. Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
Jonah and the Gourd Vine by Jack Baumgartner (1999) https://theschoolofthetransferofenergy.com/work/painting/ The ego is not your ally The quandary of the Ego’s split behavior prompts the question -- “what does the Ego want?” What is the Ego’s own self-interest which it conspires to achieve in the psychic deals which it brokers and enforces? Matthew A. Stanley • Psychoanalysis
"In the wild north" by Ivan Shishkin The once and future reader My words, like a leaf carried downstream across innumerable swirling eddies of space-time, narrowly escaping the maw of destruction countless times, only to be delivered, ever so improbably, into their wide open hands. Matthew A. Stanley
"Time to eat your piping hot oatmeal this morning, Mr. Baal, sir." A sacrifice is demanded While Jesus offers abundant life for our costly sacrifice, the ego makes similar religious demands from us for a costly sacrifice, promising in exchange the legibility and security of an identity. Matthew A. Stanley • Christianity
An animal born too soon must make masks We feel that we cannot relate to ourselves until we have performed the necessary alienation of objectifying ourselves, thus producing an object we take to be ourselves. Matthew A. Stanley • Psychoanalysis
