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Archive for archetypal energy – Page 2

Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 10)

To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 9 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: Squeeze-and-pop patterns are about how when the body is traumatized, a desire to escape into the dissociative worlds that open as a result of that trauma, is created. Squeeze-and-pop patterns have been around since the beginning of recorded […]

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UPDATE: Is Stevens’s Archetypal System of Sexuality a Form of GBAE?

In earlier posts (see posts from December 21st, 2010, and January 4th, 6th, 12th, and 20th, 2011), I have talked about what I call the Grand Bowlbian Attachment Environment (or GBAE for short). In my earlier posts I have argued that the GBAE holds the behavioral systems of caregiving, attachment, and sex. Bowlby’s ethological studies (e.g., […]

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Mama … How Do You Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Conservatives? (part 2)

Welcome to part 2. Lets get started with a second example of conservative blowback in response to liberal framings of psychological norms. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then you may wish to start with part 1. If you enjoy a state of confusion, then, by all means, forge ahead. If you’re […]

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Mama … How Do You Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Conservatives? (part 1)

Hopefully it will come as no surprise that I tend to lean left of center. In all likelihood I use George Lakoff‘s Nurturant Parent Cultural Cognitive Model (“Nurturant model” for short) to guide me through life. As Lakoff points out in his work (see his book Moral Politics for an example) empathy is part and parcel […]

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Comment: The Grand Narrative of No Grand Narrative

Comment on: What does President Obama really believe? – Yahoo! News. by Jacob Bronsther – Fri Jan 21, 2011 This morning (as per my habit), I was scanning the headlines over at YahooNews. The article What does President Obama really believe? by Jacob Bronsther caught my eye. Bronsther makes the same grumbling that I have made […]

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