What place remains for worship in modern religion? If the attraction of a faith community is ritual and connection, what place does all this singing, chanting, and confessing about God and his attributes have to do with self-development? Is it just a covert way of talking about ourselves? Matthew A. Stanley • Theology
"Two Comedians" by Edward Hopper (1965) Hegel and the Lateralized Brain The lateralized brain and Hegel's divided Whole are correlates of each other in that the gap in matter is re-doubled at the level of mind. Matthew A. Stanley • Psychoanalysis
Žižek's latest book Freedom: A Disease without Cure, released October 5th, 2023 (Link below) Book Review: Slavoj Žižek's "Freedom - A Disease without Cure" If the contradictory experience of freedom which Žižek describes is accurate, then we must acknowledge that alienation is an essential part of freedom. Matthew A. Stanley • Psychoanalysis
"Seated Monkey on a Chain" by Hendrik Goltzius (1597) Are we doomed to the pain of attachment? How can a human with a self ever attain abiding security? Matthew A. Stanley
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 A. 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 A. Stanley • Psychoanalysis
