Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

The Shotgun Wedding for the Psychologized Self

Above: Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung; back row: Abraham Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi (1909). Carl Trueman’s book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self is a true genealogy of one branch of modernity. Although published in 2020, I recently completed reading the book and wanted to recommend it to those who had not yet come across it. Trueman’s burden is to…

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