[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits us to explore the relations between the unconscious and human society. One way of describing his work is to say that he makes us recognize that the u...
What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations as a whole — rather than narrowly abstract, concerned only with the immediate interpersonal relations...
I would like to coin the phrase alimentary theology, a theology that is more attentive to and welcoming of the multiple layers contained and implied in the making of theology. This is a theology that not only pays closer attention to matters related ...
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this...
Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for dissociative disorders are still disproportional to the number of studies addressing these conditions...
You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes t...
At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thou...
When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh ...
Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
I love her beyond reason.
Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.
I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.
Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.
I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.
Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
