Wednesday, May 22, 2002

"Gummy fingers can even fool sensors being watched by guards. Simply form the clear gelatin finger over your own. This lets you hide it as you press your own finger onto the sensor. After it lets you in, eat the evidence."
(Thanks to Joel)
"Although the Austrian psychoanalyst and anarchist Otto Gross (1877 - 1920) played a pivotal role in the birth of what today we are calling modernity, with wide-ranging influences in analysis, literature, psychiatry and sociology, he has remained virtually unknown to this day. To a large extent, this is the result of an analytic historiography which Erich Fromm has rightly called 'Stalinistic': dissidents become non-persons and vanish from the records."

A rebuttal to "the masterpieces of intellectual distortion [that] amount to a declaration of war on Jung and on analytical psychology"
"The Jung Cult...in the Church poses a threat to the orthodox believer."
The Evil Philsophy Behind Political Correctness
Philosophy, psychology, politics all embroiled in an Evil conspiracy.. Immensly entertaining!
(Don't forget your grains of salt... you'll need 'em)
"That psychoanalysis even had a history in the Soviet Union comes as something of a revelation. Freud's ideas suffered much the same fate under Stalinism as virtually every other progressive trend in science and art—indeed much the same fate as Marxism itself: it was outlawed and every effort was made to erase any trace of its existence in Soviet life." —Intrepid thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union
"'if a person can hold the tension between the conflicting opposites, then eventually something will happen in the psyche to resolve the conflict. The outer circumstances may in fact remain the same, but a change takes place in the individual. This change, essentially irrational and unforeseeable, appears as a new attitude to both oneself and others; energy previously locked up in a state of indecision is released and movement becomes possible. Jung calls this the transcendent function, because what happens transcends the conflicting opposites...' Beware: this method is not for the lighthearted"
"Much of Fromm's work had to do with how a person tries to escape from having to choose. We try to get the other person, or the institution, to take action for us. But this alienates us from our own power and responsiveness."
What really happened in Blackhawk Down?
(Thanks to Jennifer)