Ego: A Defence
From Freud and Jung to the New Age Icarus
Ego is a bad word in our society. Unmoored from [...]
Dionysus vs. The Buddha
How Nietzschean spirituality offers a third way between enlightenment and selling out
This week’s instalment was prompted by a question from one [...]
Why it Matters: Nietzsche
Why I find Nietzsche so compelling (and you should too)
Why it Matters is a type of content that I [...]
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Long Version)
A compass for navigating Nietzsche
Creating an overview of Friedrich Nietzsche presents unique challenges. There [...]
Why the Ego Became Our Cultural Piñata
How the dignity of the ego got lost in translation
The word ego has broken free of its clinical origins [...]
What’s the difference between subconscious and unconscious?
Different words for the underworld
Subconscious and unconscious are two words you’ll often hear bandied [...]
Jung’s Collective Unconscious Explained
The strange story of the depths of the unconscious
Some topics remain taboo for science. When Georges Lemaître first [...]
What Freud Meant by the Ego, the Id and the Superego
The three parts of every mind
According to the father of psychology Sigmund Freud, there are [...]