Harry Harlow's Baby Monkey Experiment Experiments like the ones which Harlow performed with baby Rhesus monkeys helped to reveal that the same underlying mechanics of attachment in mammals are also at work in the infantile development of humans. Matthew Stanley
The plasticity of human desire Humans are the most un-natural of all the animals. We might frame this observation in terms of the contrast which psychoanalysis draws between instincts and drives. Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
Killing ourselves in order to live Self-harm is riddled with fruitful contradictions. Do we hurt ourselves in order to kill ourselves or in order to save ourselves? Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
Dio Distinctions are dubious at best The reductionist's quest to equivocate to the most "real" thing still suffers from the problem that they have yet to find a rock bottom to which things can fully reduce down. Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
"Religious Scenery" by Arild Rosenkran The face of God in the face of my neighbor Towards a Protestant Mysticism Although I think that Protestants have much to offer the practice of Christian mysticism, we have tended to look to other ecclesial traditions when broaching the question of mystical experiences. My sense is that we have internalized the impression that we are the illegitimate step-child of Matthew Stanley • Christianity
Samsara Audio: A conversation with Javier Rivera Javier Rivera is someone I met earlier this year (and I've plugged his writing before on this newsletter), but I'm continually impressed with his raw and unique insights which flow from an earnest wrestling with the complexity of human relationships. Javier Rivera is a student of Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
