a.n.kirillov
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- Nov 17, 2019
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Could become an interesting thread maybe?
I will go first; since I lost my job I finally got around to seriously engaging Schopenhauer and I'm now currently on the last couple pages of "World as Will and Representation".
On the side I'm reading "The Origins of Unhappiness" by David Smail; Smail, who studied philosophy and psychology and worked as a clinical psychologist for a number of decades in the UK, was very critical of the presumptions of psychology and it's role as a societal control mechanism and as a disguise for power structures within the social world, which it ignores and obfuscates but which he seems to regard as crucial in the development of psychological distress. I'm only a third into the book but so far it's been a great read.
Edit: David Smail:
I will go first; since I lost my job I finally got around to seriously engaging Schopenhauer and I'm now currently on the last couple pages of "World as Will and Representation".
On the side I'm reading "The Origins of Unhappiness" by David Smail; Smail, who studied philosophy and psychology and worked as a clinical psychologist for a number of decades in the UK, was very critical of the presumptions of psychology and it's role as a societal control mechanism and as a disguise for power structures within the social world, which it ignores and obfuscates but which he seems to regard as crucial in the development of psychological distress. I'm only a third into the book but so far it's been a great read.
Edit: David Smail:
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