The most British Japanese, or shall I say, the most Japanese British
"Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished. [...] Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in – particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth."
Kazuo Ishiguro, in The Remains of the Day
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Memórias de território
O corpo, um território com memórias (cicatrizes), histórias...
E a distância óptima será definida pelas histórias que ele encerra (o corpo).
Arrisco dizer...
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Shifting the paradigm, changing the mindset
Video: entrevista com George Cooper, 'Economics is a broken science': Dr George Cooper on his new book Money, Blood and Revolution.
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RIP Hugh Hefner
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da relevância da liberdade
A sentence that still shocks me when I think about it [civil war in Lebanon] was voiced by one of my grandfather's friends, a wealthy Aleppine merchant who fled the Baath regime. When my grandfather asked his friend during the Lebanese war why he did not go back to Aleppo, his answer was categorical: "We people of Aleppo prefer war to prison." I thought that he meant that they were going to put him in jail, but then I realized that by "prison" he meant the loss of political and economic freedoms.
Economic life, too, seems to prefer war to prison. Lebanon and Northern Syria had very similar wealth per individual (what economists call gross Domestic Product) about a century ago – and had identical cultures, language, ethnicities, food, and even jokes. Everything was the same except for the rule of the "modernizing" Baath Party in Syria compared to the totally benign state in Lebanon. In spite of a civil war that decimated the population, causing an acute brain drain and setting wealth back by several decades, in addition to every possible form of chaos that rocked the place, today Lebanon has considerably higher standard of living – between three and six times the wealth of Syria.
Nor did the point escape Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, citing him: "It seemed, wrote Machiavelli, that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues... A little bit of agitation gives resources to souls and what makes the species prosper isn't peace, but freedom.
Nassim Taleb, in Antifragile
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Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
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Antifragile
"Consider this in terms of economic and institutional life. If nature ran the economy, it would not continuously bail out its living members to make them live forever. Nor would it have permanent administrations and forecasting departments that try to outsmart the future – it would not let the scam artists of the United States Office of Management and Budget make such mistakes of epistemic arrogance.
If one looks at history as a complex system similar to nature, then, like nature, it won't let a single empire dominate the planet forever – even if every superpower from the Babylonians to the Egyptians to the Persians to the Romans to modern America has believed in permanence of its domination and managed to produce historians to theorize to that effect. Systems subjected to randomness – and unpredictability – build a mechanism beyond the robust to opportunistically reinvent themselves each generation, with continuous change of population and species.
[...] Let us look at how evolution benefits from randomness and volatility (in some dose, of course). The more noise and disturbances in the system, up to a point, barring those extreme shocks that lead to extinction of a species, the more effect of reproduction of the fittest and that of random mutations will play a role in defining the properties of the next generation. Say an organism produces ten offspring. If the environment is perfectly stable, all ten will be able to reproduce. But if there is instability, pushing aside five of these descendants (likely to be on average weaker than their surviving siblings), then those that evolution considers (on balance) tha better ones will reproduce, making the gene undergo some fitness. Likewise, if there is variability among the offspring, thanks to occasional random spontaneous mutation, a sort of copying mistake in the genetic code, then the best should reproduce, increasing the fitness of the species. So evolution benefits from randomness by two different routes: randomness in the mutations, and randomness in the environment – both act in a similar way to cause changes in the traits of the surviving next generations."
Nassim Taleb, in Antifragile
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Design - Natureza - Arte
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Mindfulness poetry
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Touched Nature
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The Anthropocene
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A loucura do Antropoceno
"À medida que o trabalho de Morton se estende para lá dos hierofantes culturais como Björk e entra nas páginas dos maiores órgãos de informação, ele está talvez a transformar-se no nosso mais popular guia para a nova época. Sim, é verdade que ele tem algumas ideias que parecem muito loucas acerca do que significa estar vivo nos tempos actuais – mas o que significa estar vivo exactamente agora, no Antropoceno, é efectivamente muito louco."
"Morton compara esta consciencialização com as histórias de detectives em que o perseguidor percebe que se está a perseguir a si próprio (os seus exemplos favoritos são Blade Runner e Édipo Rei). “Nem todos nós estamos preparados para ficarmos suficientemente assustados [com esta epifania]”, declara. Mas existe outra reviravolta: apesar de os seres humanos terem causado o Antropoceno, não podemos controlá-lo. “Oh, meu Deus”, exclamou Morton ante mim a certa altura, fingindo estar horrorizado. “A minha tentativa de escapar da teia do destino era a teia do destino.”
Mais aqui.
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What is falling in love
Sobre Michael Guy Thompson
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A stunning exploration of the relation between desire and psychopathology, The Death of Desire is a unique synthesis of the work of Laing, Freud, Nietzsche, and Heidegger that renders their often difficult concepts brilliantly accessible to and usable by psychotherapists of all persuasions. In bridging a critical gap between phenomenology and psychoanalysis, M. Guy Thompson, one of the leading existential psychoanalysts of our time, firmly re-situates the unconscious – what Freud called "the lost continent of repressed desires" – in phenomenology. In so doing, he provides us with the richest, most compelling phenomenological treatment of the unconscious to date and also makes Freud’s theory of the unconscious newly comprehensible.
In this revised and updated second edition to the original published in 1985, M. Guy Thompson takes us inside his soul-searching seven-year apprenticeship with radical psychiatrist R. D. Laing and his cohorts as it unfolded in counterculture London of the 1970s. This rite de passage culminates with a four-year sojourn inside one of Laing’s post-Kingsley Hall asylums, where Laing’s unorthodox conception of treatment dispenses with conventional boundaries between "doctor" and "patient." In this unprecedented exploration, Thompson reveals the secret to Laing’s astonishing alternative to the conventional psychiatric and psychoanalytic treatment schemes.
Movingly written and deeply personal, Thompson shows why the very concept of "mental illness" is a misnomer and why sanity and madness should be understood instead as inherently puzzling stratagems that we devise in order to protect ourselves from intolerable mental anguish. The Death of Desire offers a provocative and challenging reappraisal of depth psychotherapy from an existential perspective that will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, philosophers, social scientists, and students of the human condition.
Aqui
Sobre o autor: aqui
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Pré - Conceitos
"When you hold preconceived thought and beliefs this can manifest itself in sometimes ugly ways and at the very least can skew your judgement. I think at some stage in our lives we have all been guilty of holding unjust prejudices against people for no particular reason other than something we have been told about them."
"A photograph is shaped more by the person behind the camera, than by what is in front of it"
Muito interessante, quando quem observa é influenciado por aquilo que lhe contam. Por aquilo em que acreditam. Sem conhecerem, de facto, a pessoa...
O problema é quando esta situação se transpõe para a vida real, e quando se elaboram juízos de valor e se emitem opiniões mal informadas...
Aqui
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"In a different voice"
"Gabriela was a character so close to who I am. I would like if women could be just the way we are. Not the way need to be."
Sónia Braga
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Grande mulher, grande actriz, grande filme: Aquarius
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Cidade visível
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
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Sigmund e Anna – Um pai que não podia tolerar ninguém acima de si.
"As pessoas estarão cientes de que Anna foi analisada pelo pai? A partir de 1918, quando manifestou o desejo de se tornar também analista, deitou-se no divã, todos os dias. Na época, eu não via nisso mais do que um favor que ele lhe fazia. Mais um favor. Mas muito em breve me interroguei. Ela vivia com ele e, além disso, confidenciava-lhe o que não se diz a ninguém. Os pensamentos secretos, os desejos mais vergonhosos. Pensamentos, desejos esses, que lhe diziam respeito a ele, essencialmente. Sigmund publicara, 1919, um artigo intitulado "Uma criança é espancada". Anna, pelo seu lado, no Congresso de Berlim, em 1922, proferiu uma conferência que incidia sobre os fantasmas da fustigação numa rapariga, exactamente sobre o mesmo tema. Naquela altura, ela ainda não tinha doentes e, portanto, não podia falar senão de si mesma. Ora, tratava-se de fantasmas incestuosos entre pai e filha. Tudo era trazido para a praça pública, numa exibição que não enganou ninguém. Talvez uma maneira de afrontar as críticas, de as antecipar. Ou, então, estavam os dois de tal forma cegos que não viam que se podiam achar aí motivo de censura? Aliás, não houve ninguém que ousasse levantar a menor reserva, em todo o caso.
Sigmund era já sagrado e, havia muito, intocável.
Para mim, não é esse, contudo, o ponto essencial. Não percebo como pôde ele aceitar, daquela mulher nova, que se deixasse aprisionar em definitivo por essa psicanálise, sabendo que Anna tinha consigo uma relação de amor exclusivo e excessivo. Por mais que fosse um génio, como era capaz de evitar que aquele laço, no qual estava tão implicado quanto ela, não se consolidasse assim para sempre? Estou certa de que tal passo, em lugar de exercer um papel libertador, apenas fez estreitar mais os nós que os ligavam. O resultado foi visível. Anna jamais largou o pai, tornou-se na sua única colaboradora, na sua voz nos congressos, na sua herdeira espiritual. Foi a sua guarda na doença – mais próxima do seu corpo do que de qualquer outra pessoa.
Em 1925, Sigmund ofereceu-lhe um cão, um pastor-alemão que a devia defender durante os seus passeios. O Wolf.
Para ambos, o animal assemelhava-se a um filho. Davam-lhe de comer à mesa, cúmplices num jogo que me era insuportável. Cúmplices em tudo. O mesmo se passou com a amizade que particular que Anna estreitou com Dorothy, no ano em causa. Sigmund tudo fez para que esta se desenrolasse perto de si, quase debaixo dos seus olhos, na mesma teia das relações amorosas, familiares e analíticas. Aliás, foi Dorothy que lhe ofereceu o seu primeiro cão, o seu primeiro chow-chow. Não existia qualquer fronteira, qualquer limite. O magma. Para que jamais se separassem.
Sem dúvida, as pessoas julgam que a minha filha beneficiou daquela singular situação. Claro que tinha prestígio por causa do nome do pai e do adubamento com que ele a gratificou oficialmente, em vida. Mas bastava olhá-la para se perceber que não se achava à altura de tal destino. A identificação com o pai é uma impostura que não pode passar despercebida a ninguém. Anna é inteligente, sem dúvida, mas pobre e sem génio. Que criou ela? Na análise de crianças, de que retira a glória de ser fundadora, acho bem mais interessante o trabalho de Melanie Klein, sua rival, que não se limita a uma pedagogia vagamente tingida de psicanálise. Anna não fez mais do que aplicar, escolarmente, as teorias do pai. Como é que ninguém se dá conta?
Acho-a sobretudo alienada, esterelizada, sob todos os pontos de vista, pelo que o pai lhe impôs. A força do seu próprio desejo. Ele chamava-lhe a sua Antígona, esperando sublinhar assim o heroísmo que mostrava a seu favor. De facto, ele desvelava a origem incestuosa daquele amor: Antígona, filha de Édipo... Pergunto-me, às vezes, porque o inventor do extraordinário utensílio de libertação que é a psicanálise não se conseguiu aproveitar dele pessoalmente. No que se chama a sua auto-análise, ele parou, forçosamente, num limite que desconhecia. Acho uma pena que não tenha podido continuar a experiência mais tarde, com um dos seus alunos. Com certeza era impossível, de tal modo estes estavam aterrorizados pelo monstro em que ele se tornara, a seus olhos. Um deus vivo. A maneira como se conduziam com ele dá uma ideia daquele terror. Também teria faltado, por parte do Sigmund, uma humildade que estava longe de possuir. Agarrava-se ao seu estatuto de pai da psicanálise. Um pai que não podia tolerar ninguém acima de si.
Nicolle Rosen, in Martha Freud
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How to be kind when you're upset with your partner
"A relationship is the concerted effort of two people who mindfully and enthusiastically work towards a shared vision. Despite the difficulties of daily life, partners are in charge of their own behaviour. While a couple grows together, they are not precluded from growing as individuals as well – in fact they must evolve as individuals to continually bring their “best selves” to their partner."
Mais aqui.
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Freud e Fausto
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of complacency
"... the series’ contemporary sequences concentrate on the tipping points, when we realise that something uninspected has suddenly gone much too far."
aqui
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Please DO stick around.
“There are no rules — if you’re a boy. If you’re a girl, you have to play the game. What is that game? You are allowed to be pretty and cute and sexy. But don’t act too smart. Don’t have an opinion. Don’t have an opinion that is out of line with the status quo, at least. You are allowed to be objectified by men and dress like a slut, but don’t own your sluttiness. And do not, I repeat, do not, share your own sexual fantasies with the world.
“Be what men want you to be. But more importantly, be what women feel comfortable with you being around other men. And finally, do not age. Because to age is a sin. You will be criticized, you will be vilified, and you will definitely not be played on the radio.”
Full transcript of the speech, here.
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