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LATEST ARTICLES ( 56 )

• Whispers of Solitude

  

  Music to accompany the poem: Anouar Brahem “Le Pas du Chat Noir”.It’s only when you are alone You can see yourself as you truly are, But only if you are... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• The Fall of Icarus - Für F.N.

  When one lives in the unliveable world of dreamy euphoria, there is no rush to go back to the real. Because everything is possible—then. And yet nothing is... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Spots of Time

  

  When in summer last year, I was mortally ill with bacterial endocarditis, what sustained me was the love and care of my family and also memories of special... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Devils and Monsters Psychotic Depression and Electric Sho...

  

  Devils and monsters Psychotic depression and electric shock treatment 'Is there any other treatment you can give my mother to make her better? Surely there... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Les Papillons

  And I danced with myself in joy and in sorrow, And I danced yesterday, and I danced tomorrow. You held me in your arms fast, while I looked into your eyes... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Freud and the Fiction of ‘Oedipus Complex’

  The StoryOedipus was doomed before birth. Laïus, the king of Thebes, learned from the Delphic Oracle that a child born of his wife Jocasta would become his... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Alone, Together

  There has never been time like this before. The invisible killer lies in waiting to take your life, and mine, and those we love. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• The Death of Prince Volkonsky and the Lightness of Being

  A Schopenhauerian interpretation“To those in whom the will has turned and denied itself, this very real world of ours, with its suns and galaxies, is – nothing. Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Für F.N.

  You and I have travelled to the land of Hades, to the land of the dead, from which only few return.Untergehen is such a lonely journey Monsieur.Despite your... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Für F.N.

  You and I have travelled to the land of Hades, to the land of the dead, from which only few return— Untergehen is such a lonely journey, Monsieur. Despite your... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Envy

  This is a story from a collection ‘Old Trees Die Standing’.I first met Cecilia in a nursing home, the forth in her career. Her GP, one of many, was at the end o... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Old Trees Die Standing

  

  The original version of this story appears in my collection of stories about old age called Old Trees Die Standing.Jack had one great passion in life: his farm. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Gandhi: The Rebel in the Name of Truth

  “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword” Matthew 10:34-36“It is the stillest words that bring... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• The Psychopathology of Plagiarism

  

  Plagiarism, as defined in the Oxford Dictionary, is “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own”. Etymologically, it... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Delusional Diagnosis of Syphilis in Famous Men

  with particular reference to Nietzsche and Schubert.For some decades, I have been confounded by the irrationality and viscosity of medical diagnosis-making, at... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Nietzsche, A Man in Exile

  “As my father I have already died...” ( Ecce Homo)Nietzsche was born in a village of Röcken, Germany, into a pious Christian family. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• A Tribute to Leonard Cohen

  

  A humble tribute to that troubadour of troubadours.Thank you, Leonard Cohen, for being Leonard Cohen."Anthem" live in Dublin, 2013. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Nietzsche and Bipolar Disorder

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) lived at the time when bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, was not recognised. The first major work that placed... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Ibsen, Part II: Lady from the Sea - The Return of the Dangerous "Other"

  

  The Plot:The chief protagonist, Ellida, is the daughter of a lighthouse keeper in one of the beautiful and mysterious Norwegian fjords. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Sorrento and the Neapolitan Riviera: Thoughts on Friendship

  

  I visited Sorrento in May of this year for the second time, after a 16-year interval. It seemed more crowded than before, but just as enchanting (October was a... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY