Category: This Mobius Strip of Ifs

  • Freud’s Cheerful Pessimism

    Peter Gay’s biography of Freud (Freud  A Life for Our Time) has provided me with the sweeping arc of the man’s life and especially articulated his often abstract if not abstruse theories in lucid prose. I was a mere lad in my twenties when I picked up Beyond the Pleasure Principle;…

  • On Reading Christopher Hitchens’ “God is not Great”

    The subtitle reads “How Religion Poisons Everything.” This will be a rather discursive blog, so hold on as I cherry pick ideas as we go along. Psychotherapy if decently and competently practiced and if openly and willingly entered into can shake a client to the roots of his or her…

  • Babbling Books And Motion Pictures

    I thought it might be of interest to myself, perhaps to you, to give the classic bibliographic list of books and films that are very much current in my mind, and for that matter, in my literary and cinematic genetic database. Here, first, is a list of books, stories or…

  • Personal Posturings: Yahoos as Bloggers

    Before I begin this howl, I’ll define Yahoo as a lout, brute and coarse human being, the term itself derived from Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. I vaguely recall reading this fabulous book in the early years of college, thinking it was written for kids. Was I wrong! For the past year…