“Roudinesco: `Lacan was a seducer, not a dictator'”
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"Dindarlar bazı nevrotik hastalıklara karşı büyük ölçüde korunaklıdırlar; evrensel bir nevrozu kabul etmiş olmaları onları bireysel bir tane edinme külfetinden kurtarır."
Sigmund Freud
Where is your Nietzschean 'god' now Freud?
Are you with him?
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“And then there’s the joke in which a young man told his mother he would become a Doctor of Philosophy and she said, ―Wonderful! But what kind of disease is philosophy?”
The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
“Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with deliberate abusiveness, as
―the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine.”
The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
“If savages are naturally nasty, then childrearing is an arena of discipline and conflict, and evil people are showing a dark side that was insufficiently tamed.”
The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
“Hobbes believed that people could escape this hellish existence only by surrendering their autonomy to a sovereign person or assembly. He called it a leviathan, the Hebrew word for a monstrous sea creature subdued by Yahweh at the dawn of creation. Much depends on which of these armchair anthropologists is correct.”
The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Nude Academy
PsikoSerum 