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Cures for Love
‘Cures for Love’ is the title of a self-help book written by the Roman poet Ovid in 2 AD that…
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Everything Is So Weird
There are moments, terrifying but also useful, vertiginous, comedic and in their own way filled grandeur and beauty, when we leave ordinary reality behind and perceive everything as for once entirely and profoundly weird.
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Escaping Into History
We should, at moments, be allowed to admit to longing to be living in a different age, and not to have to think about all the things that people of our times are so strongly supposed to be obsessed by.
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The Inevitability of Choice
There are so few public reminders of life’s necessary trade-offs. Yet once we understand the incompatibilities, we are in a better position to do what we always needed to do: choose.
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How Heartbreak Pushes Artists to Their Greatest Achievements
For all its many inconveniences and agonies, heartbreak appears to have a longstanding and curious power to push artists towards…
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The Theory of Triangulation
‘Triangulation’ is a term used in psychoanalysis to refer to the way in which someone can be drawn to repeatedly…
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Calm
The Therapeutic Benefits of a Walk
Imagine that we’ve been in the apartment by ourselves since the previous evening, and now, at the start of the…
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Relationships
The Ordinariness of the Lovers Who Devastate Us
When we hear certain stories of devastating heartbreak – the kind where the longing and the suffering seem limitless –…
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How Heartbreak Ends
Heartbreak is a paradoxical state in which, for a time – very strangely – we take the side of the…
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Dating When You’ve Learnt to Love Yourself
Dating is ostensibly the business of searching for someone to love – but for it to go well, it requires…
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Ruminating on One’s Ex
We can spend a great deal of time – years, perhaps – wondering why certain people, whom we loved very…
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The Only Love Worthy of the Name
Some of us will require the better part of a lifetime to learn a very simple-sounding lesson – one that…
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Relationships
How Heartbreak Pushes Artists to Their Greatest Achievements
For all its many inconveniences and agonies, heartbreak appears to have a longstanding and curious power to push artists towards…
View
Self-Knowledge
The Theory of Triangulation
‘Triangulation’ is a term used in psychoanalysis to refer to the way in which someone can be drawn to repeatedly…
View
Calm
The Therapeutic Benefits of a Walk
Imagine that we’ve been in the apartment by ourselves since the previous evening, and now, at the start of the…
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Relationships
The Ordinariness of the Lovers Who Devastate Us
When we hear certain stories of devastating heartbreak – the kind where the longing and the suffering seem limitless –…
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Relationships
How Heartbreak Ends
Heartbreak is a paradoxical state in which, for a time – very strangely – we take the side of the…
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Relationships
Dating When You’ve Learnt to Love Yourself
Dating is ostensibly the business of searching for someone to love – but for it to go well, it requires…
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Relationships
Ruminating on One’s Ex
We can spend a great deal of time – years, perhaps – wondering why certain people, whom we loved very…
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Relationships
The Only Love Worthy of the Name
Some of us will require the better part of a lifetime to learn a very simple-sounding lesson – one that…
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