Category Archives: psychology

On Salinger and psychopathology

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Mike

Via social media, I recently noted that I had become accidentally immersed in the book Salinger, an exhaustive biography of J.D. Salinger published by David Shields and Shane Salerno. About two-thirds into the work, I realized that my opinion of … Continue reading →

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On essence, memory and media

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Mike

Updated February 2020 with the postscript below. “So much still to give, so many joys of life to taste, all cut short by some cell gone wrong. Life is so very unfair.” — Douglas Hofstadter, Le Ton beau de Marot … Continue reading →

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