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How We Can Feel Misunderstood – Without Ever Explaining Who We Are
There is much sympathy available to people who complain that significant others have not listened to them properly. Especially if…
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Three Essays on Flight
If we were tasked with showing a visiting Martian the best of human capacities, we could do worst than to take them to the airport for a look around.
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Henri Rousseau
The artist Henri Rousseau — who had no formal training, and who only began painting seriously in his forties — was ridiculed by the critics of his day. Yet he is now celebrated as a visionary genius.
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Charles Dickens’s Secret
Almost no other writer has ever been quite as successful as Charles Dickens. But Dickens spent most of his life hiding a terrible secret — one that helps to shed light on his peculiar genius…
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Sociability
The Challenges of Male Friendships
There are, of course, exceptions: buddies who know all about intimacy and cosiness, camaraderie and connection. But let’s state the…
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Self-Knowledge
What Does the Child in You Need Today?
We know – in theory – that it is extremely wise to try to look after ourselves, to show ourselves…
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Why We Can so Quickly End up Feeling Hated
Some of the darkest moments of our lives are those in which we make the sudden discovery that someone whom…
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Why We Sometimes Need to Be Tied to a Mast
One of the most instructive stories in Greek mythology is to be found in Book 12 of Homer’s Odyssey, where…
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Relationships
Good Endings in Love
The pain exacted by the unwanted end of a relationship will always be significant for the abandoned party – but…
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Relationships
On Castration Anxiety
In an attempt to explain the often puzzling phenomenon of male heterosexual impotence, psychologists have at points offered us one…
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Relationships
How to Find Out What Might Happen With a New Partner
When a new relationship is on the cards, as we chat over supper or go on a walk, we might…
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Self-Knowledge
Trust What You Knew Then, Not What You Feel Now
The business of living can be complicated by a particularly exhausting habit: our tendency to question our judgements with the…
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Sociability
The Challenges of Male Friendships
There are, of course, exceptions: buddies who know all about intimacy and cosiness, camaraderie and connection. But let’s state the…
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Self-Knowledge
What Does the Child in You Need Today?
We know – in theory – that it is extremely wise to try to look after ourselves, to show ourselves…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Can so Quickly End up Feeling Hated
Some of the darkest moments of our lives are those in which we make the sudden discovery that someone whom…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Sometimes Need to Be Tied to a Mast
One of the most instructive stories in Greek mythology is to be found in Book 12 of Homer’s Odyssey, where…
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Relationships
Good Endings in Love
The pain exacted by the unwanted end of a relationship will always be significant for the abandoned party – but…
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Relationships
On Castration Anxiety
In an attempt to explain the often puzzling phenomenon of male heterosexual impotence, psychologists have at points offered us one…
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Relationships
How to Find Out What Might Happen With a New Partner
When a new relationship is on the cards, as we chat over supper or go on a walk, we might…
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Self-Knowledge
Trust What You Knew Then, Not What You Feel Now
The business of living can be complicated by a particularly exhausting habit: our tendency to question our judgements with the…
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