Bruno Bettelheim, “Freud and Man’s Soul”
“Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love,” claims Freud in a letter to Jung, and Bettelheim devotes his short book to this proposition (1)....
Category: philosophy
On Esotericism
John Smith, according to Jill Lepore, was prone to making things up. He claimed to have bedded princesses while battling by land or sea the world over. Russia, ...
Xenophon, “Apology of Socrates”
Xenophon, Apology of Socrates for Glen Thurow, whose civility & graciousness I still marvel at, and for Peter Lund, who understands how personal the love of...
Leo Strauss, “Thoughts on Machiavelli”
for Laura Jensen I Daughter’s If You Leave refuses to let go. Over and over it indulges pains the mere thought of loss could provoke. Some might think thi...
Plato, “Lovers”
for Nathaniel Cochran & Christopher Kirk I Or Rivals, or On Philosophy. This short dialogue probably found disrepute because of its unabashed frankness abou...