Anne Dufourmantelle | On Risking Life
Anne Dufourmantelle was a French philosopher and psychoanalyst whose work focused on risk taking. Anne believed risk was essential to meaningful human life and argued that ”absolute security – like ‘zero […]
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To Cultivate An Active Suicidality: possibility and suicide
Introduction In this essay I want to discuss suicide from within a Heideggerian perspective as a form of freedom. In doing so I will be making the distinction between suicide-as-event […]
Their good life: Should the state legislate for individual happiness?
‘Men are disturbed not by events, but by their opinion about events.’ – Epictetus Some governments are now providing free psychotherapy to their citizens. Jules Evans asks, ‘Is there a […]
Deleuze’s Politics: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, and Nomadology
Daniel W Smith discussed Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s works Anti-Oedipus & A Thousand Plateaus at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2009. Smith, a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, is a […]
