I'm reading Freud again for the first time since my undergraduate career--Studies in Hysteria. I'm always interested in cutting back to Freud's own work, as opposed to some of the more strained interpretive leaps his followers have made. Freud tends to get a lot of flack from critics because he was wrong about so many things, and, more often, ( Read more... )

The other thing I'm remembering (after a hiatus from regular writing which now has endured about six months, due to application/acceptance/moving/etc.) is that writing, at least in the early stages, at least for me, is nothing more than a pure skeptical act. I mean skepticism in its classic sense, which calls upon the thinker to suspend both belief ( Read more... )