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    Against "the postmodern novel"
    • Dec 12, 2018
    • 4 min

    Against "the postmodern novel"

    [Here's an excerpt from a book on 'humanism' I wanted to write back in 2006. It's from a passage in which I was arguing against...
    D. W. Winnicott on playing
    • May 20, 2018
    • 10 min

    D. W. Winnicott on playing

    Here are some old disjointed notes on a classic book by the psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott. I happen to be skeptical of psychoanalysis,...
    Fragments of humanism
    • Sep 21, 2015
    • 3 min

    Fragments of humanism

    L’enfer, c’est les autres?— Contrary to what Sartre pessimistically thought, if hell exists, it is not other people. It is the absence of...
    Homo ludens vs. homo institutorum
    • Sep 15, 2014
    • 3 min

    Homo ludens vs. homo institutorum

    [Excerpt from a book.] The psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott said it simply—one of those simple but profound truths worth remembering: “It is...

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