Where the field of psychology has continued to be the main authority on the nature of one’s inner world – thoughts, feelings and anything concerning the subjective inner-psyche, there seems in recent years to be an awakening of a new cultural sociology of emotions. While perhaps not as statistically and empirically rigorous as the psychological…
Category: Psychology
The Role of God in the Evolutionary Emergence of Cooperation
“Religions are like different maps whose routes all lead to the collective good of society. Some maps take their followers over rugged terrain. Other maps have easier paths […] The maps were made by the people who went first and didn’t die. The maps that survive are the ones that work.” – Scott Adams, 2004….
The Three Motivations For Love: The Hidden Negative Effects of Authenticity and Choice
Introduction: In this essay, I will argue that the current neo-liberal psychotherapeutic discourse on autonomy and self-fulfillment has invaded popular culture so pervasively as to become indistinguishable from daily-ethical “common sense”. In the realm of romantic relationships, this shift in focus promoting allegedly desired states of “authenticity”, “happiness” and “relationship health” have come to obscure…
The Psychological Significance of Christ’s Double Life: God and Man
Summary: This essay discusses the unique combination imbedded in the Christ figure, as being both the abstract all-viewing God as well as an anthropomorphized deity. By understanding the role of uncertainty in the anthropomorphizing tendency, it is speculated that the dual-nature of Jesus enables the “hijacking” of the mentalizing system, by using the same social…
Further Than Any Stretch of the Imagination: Where Peterson Goes Too Far
Originally Published on 6th of July, 2017 in the r/JordanPeterson Forum Despite this title, I should note that I have little interest in Peterson’s more controversial political positions regarding gender and transsexualism, which have been the focal point of the criticisms leveled against him. Personally, I found immense value in his lectures, and books and…