Gauguin's hut in Tahiti, photo by Jules Agostini (1896) How to change the past To progress from ignorance to knowledge, we require this intermediary moment where we posit the truth as lost and in need of recovery. This loss is precisely what catalyzes our search, and the result of this search is the production of the truth. Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
"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 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 Stanley • Psychoanalysis
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
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
"The Three Circles of the Trinity, Canto 33" by John Flaxman Theosis, mediate and immediate Do we take Christ as the blueprint for God's plan for each human, or as the anomalous intersection of God and man? What theological implications does this choice have? Matthew Stanley • Christianity
