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In the course of man’s mental and socio-cultural evolution, two complementary systems have developed for the pre- emptive processing of injuries: firstly the socio-immunological methods, especially legal and solidaristic ones, but also the military ones by which people resolve their confrontations with distant and foreign aggressors and insulting or harmful neighbours; and secondly the symbolic or psycho-immunological practices on which humans have always relied to cope – with varying success – with their vulnerability through fate, including mortality, in the form of imaginary anticipations and mental armour.
You Must Change Your Life
Peter Sloterdijk
Cioran’s proposals and propositions in The Trouble with Being Born, one might say, offer us an alternative to Winnicott’s famous and radical definition of mental health as ‘the feeling of aliveness’. The pragmatic question, Cioran suggests, is: __what might be the use of wondering about the trouble with being born, what might this inspire in us?__
The Life You Want
Adam Phillips
Second, the practical pursuit of one’s civil rights consistently contravenes expectations of success. Boggs came to the conclusion that integrating into class society, learning how to be a respectable bourgeois citizen, did not protect many black citizens from becoming “outsiders.” Moreover, it encouraged the justification of the existence of “the outsiders” as an inevitable feature of modern life. I take this to be the ethical critique.
Race, Time, and Utopia
William M. Paris
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