Most people think of Freud as a psychologist rather than as a philosopher. And worse, they often think of his work as achingly passé and of the man as a pseudo-scientist at best, and a charlatan at worst. But I think that Freud was a great philosopher who still has a lot to teach us about ourselves.
British psychoanalyst Donald Woods Winnicott wrote in a review of Carl Jung's memoir Memories, Dreams, and Reflections: “I was sane, and…through analysis and self-analysis I achieved some measure of insanity.” How do we make sense of this strange claim?
2015年最引人注目(对许多人来说也是最令人担忧)的政治事件或许是唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)的崛起。起初，很多人认为特朗普是一个有趣的杂耍。几个月来，大众媒体的言论领袖(以及我的许多哲学家朋友)一直在重复，特朗普“没有机会”获得共和党提名，因此他“没有机会”成为美国总统。After each of his inflammatory statements, they declared thatthis time特朗普“走得太远了”，他预测自己会垮台。