A menu for goodness can provide adequate sustenance only if the words feed the soul of the person who consumes it. So what’s wrong with just being nice?
Pure Niceness, Complex Niceness and Genuinity
Some people have ill intentions and all have the capacity for barbarism - but some also have consciences and ALL have a heart
Humanity, Perspective and Suffering – My Search for Meaning with Frankl Part 1
The introduction to a series of posts based on the book Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Psychoanalysis and its Great Contents – Freud and Beyond Part 7
The final post in the Freud and Beyond series - praising the critical role psychoanalysis has in helping people and illuminating the true nature of humankind
Symbolic, Imaginary, Language and Lacan – Freud and Beyond Part 6
The sixth instalment of this series explores a variety of themes based on the work of Jacques Lacan and others around language, illusion and the unconscious
Subjectivity, Narcissism and Self Psychology – Freud and Beyond Part 5
Part 5 of the Freud and Beyond series explores ideas around narcissism and self psychology in more detail - particularly the work of Winnicott and Kohut
Connections, Libido, Genuinity and Fairbairn – Freud and Beyond Part 4
This post is all about the connections we make to sustain life - and the importance of that compassionate, life-affirming essence of one’s true self, Genuinity
Integration, Annihilation, Reparation and Klein – Freud and Beyond Part 3
This post explores ideas influenced by the work of developmental psychologist Melanie Klein - in particular the ambivalent good and bad feelings at the core of every human being
Love, Anxiety, Self and Sullivan – Freud and Beyond Part 2
This post explores a variety of ideas linked to the notion that human beings are better off together
Conflict, Fantasy and Ego – Freud and Beyond Part 1
The first blog in a seven-part series illuminating a variety of psychoanalytic ideas inspired by the book Freud and Beyond
Repression, Depression and Obsessive Compulsion – Fleabag and Philosophy
Being & Niceness runs the rule over hit BBC comedy Fleabag, exploring some of the philosophical themes that underpin the show’s dynamics
Synchronicity: Map of the Soul – A Selected Collection of Jungian Elaborations Part 5
The final post in the Map of the Soul series - exploring Jung’s Synchronicity theory and the possibility of a cosmological order underlying existence
