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For Louise Bourgeois, pain was an unavoidable condition of life, and no artistic “remedies or excuses” could lessen its intensity
For Louise Bourgeois, pain was an unavoidable condition of life,...
Purveyors of ideas — whether religious or literary in nature — are followed by violence. Salman Rushie is the latest in this long line
Purveyors of ideas — whether religious or literary in nature...
Forced to sign a document asserting no ill-treatment in 1938, Sigmund Freud added, “I can heartily recommend the Gestapo to anyone”
Forced to sign a document asserting no ill-treatment in 1938,...
“Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men….”
“Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests...
The journals we don’t write in, because they don’t exist
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“Neither the existence nor the nonexistence of the self is in any way established. Without that…”
“Neither the existence nor the nonexistence of the self is...
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