Posted in Psychology, Quote of the Day on January 30th, 2007 No Comments »
One more from “A Primer of Jungian Psychology”:
As we have said, stimulation from external sources may produce tension and strain in the psyche by adding energy to it. Under normal conditions, this new energy can be accommodated within the psyche without causing serious dislocations. But if the psyche is already unstable, due to an uneven […]
Posted in Psychology, Quote of the Day on January 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
From “A Primer of Jungian Psychology:”
Extraverted thinking utilizes information supplied to the brain by stimulation of the sense organs. The object which activates the thinking process is something that exists in the external world. One tries to explain how a seed germinates and grows into a plant, or why water turns into steam when heated […]
Posted in Morality and Ethics, Psychology, Quote of the Day on January 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
From Walzer’s Thick and Thin:
…the major challenge to distributive justice—in the past and in our own time—comes from the effort to deploy a single good across the range of goods. I have used the spatial imagery of “spheres” to describe this deployment. Think of each social good as enclosed within boundaries fixed by the reach […]
Posted in Current Events, Psychology on September 22nd, 2006 2 Comments »
Sociologist Sherry Turkle is interviewed by Liz Else in the September 16-22, 2006 issue of New Scientist. The interview is about electronic social networking and its impact on society.
The interview can be summed up in her answer to one question:
Are you talking about a permanent change?
It seems to be part of a larger trend in […]