30 notes tagged "culture"
Perspective on Psychological Work
May 2024
We often fall into the trap of believing that we are defined by our pasts, that we are our past. The past, however, is merely a construction of the #coaching
#individuality
#culture
#change
#concentration
#spontaneity
monoculture and cultural diversity
Oct 2023
This prologue is the story of personal experiences that drew me to the search and gave rise to critical insights In my youth, I had no concept of #culture
shared culture and getting our story wrong
Oct 2023
the shared culture of a people serves as a lens that shapes the perceptions and behavior of its members in ways both beneficial and destructive. #culture
#stories
#society
mass consumerism and excessive overconsumption
May 2023
the acquisitive consumption, where things are acquired at a scale that exceeds one’s needs, or even one’s capacity to consume repetitive consumption #triplicity
#culture
new communalists and new left
Apr 2023
New Communalists, who believed that a cocktail of personal computing and psychedelic drugs could offer refuge from government power and the struggle #culture
#feminism
six stages of ancestral passage to adulthood
Dec 2022
in traditional societies … growing up was a matter of survival … the transition from the naiveté and dependency of childhood to adult sensibilities #culture
#individuality
freedom to choose recoils in anxiety of change
Dec 2022
never in human history have individuals been freer to choose their life path, their values, and to serve what is true for them. what is most #individuality
#change
#culture
beeing a grown-up in a contemporary culture
Dec 2022
contemporary culture … been grown-ups through responsibly exercising parental, fiduciary, relational, and societal roles … we play all these mature #culture
#individuality
patterns of cultural influences and personal biographies
Dec 2022
where we find patterns, we also will likely find core, emotion-laden ideas within us … internalized messages from daily life (from popular media, #culture
#relationship
doubt protects mystery from stagnation
Dec 2022
the doubt which keeps alive the dialectical values, and therefore protects a culture from reification and stagnation, also serves to enliven the #culture
#theology
gender and other cultural fantiasies
Dec 2022
while sex is biologically driven, gender is socially construed, and constricting definitions for men and women then have proved still another of #fiction
#sexuality
#culture
#theology
confused dictatorships of prosperous liberal democracies
Dec 2022
over the years, we have seen huge setbacks … yet, liberal democracy has endured and come back repeatedly, because the alternatives are so bad … #authority
#culture
the end of history
Dec 2022
Francis Fukuyama 1989 & 2022 the phrase “the end of history” was coined by Hegel (the first philosopher to speak the language of modern social #authority
#culture
#hegelian
white supremacist capitalist patriarchy
Dec 2022
a term coined by the late feminist critic and social theorist Bell Hooks that describes a system that benefits from inequality and exploitation, and #authority
#feminism
#culture
psychotherapy assumption processing traumas
Dec 2021
our assumption, our fantasy, in psychoanalysis has been that we’re going to process, we’re going to grow, and we’re going to level things out so #fantasies
#culture
#therapeutic
accumulated sensory and cultural experiences
Sep 2021
(there are) sensory and cultural experiences that we all accumulate through living in a physical and social world; experiences that result from #sensory
#culture
#society
tech engineers desire
Aug 2021
engineering desire, is the approach of Silicon Valley, authoritarian governments … happens in labs, with cold, lifeless instruments … use #authority
#technology
#society
#culture
the slavery of the machine
Aug 2021
It is mentally and morally injurious to man to do anything in which he does not find pleasure. It is impossible to sweep the streets with mental, #technology
#culture
true artist and amusing craftsman
Aug 2021
The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself, takes no notice whatever of the public, a beautiful #artist
#culture
conformity and artistic novelty
Aug 2021
Most people go through their lives in a sort of coarse comfort, like petted animals, without ever realising that they are probably thinking other #culture
#artist
#conformity
public beauty and novelty
Aug 2021
The one thing that the public dislike is novelty. The vitality and progress of art depend in a large measure on the continual extension of #culture
#artist
#conformity
social classes partial realisation
Aug 2021
No class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them … The #culture
#individuality
all hipsters look alike
Aug 2021
for a hipster, the rival is popular culture—he eschews anything popular and embraces what he believes to be eclectic, but he does so according to #culture
#mimetic
distinctions between good and poor taste
Aug 2021
Taste is an individual’s pattern of preferences for certain qualities of form over others. Social and cultural experiences influence taste, so our #culture
personal names in tribal societies
Dec 2020
It’s an interesting, very significant detail that in the tribal societies, which we think have the least individuality, people have the most #culture
#individuality
sophisticated therapeutic class
Dec 2020
The sophisticated “therapeutic class” who come to private therapy have their stories already formed into the therapeutic genre, that is, the story #therapeutic
#culture
picaresque mode parody of the individuation
Dec 2020
the realm of picaresque reflection, of seeing through every established stance, yet without moral implication … to the society which to the #individuality
#culture
#conformity
Technological Society
Dec 2020
fear of being without a phone #technology
#culture
#mimetic
#subject
Gurdjieff and Kundabuffer
Nov 2019
teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff who grew up in the Caucasus region of the Russian steppes and explored the Essene and Sufi traditions in central Asia, #culture
three levels system in society
Sep 2019
Societies before the modern era and those still functioning in less-developed parts of the world believe that most people are to be left permanently #triplicity
#culture
#hindu
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