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We're living in a pandemic of loneliness. What can we do about it?
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The Inevitability of Loneliness
And the Price of Comparing Yourself to Others (Vol. 5; Issue 34)
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August 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Emojis: 👍 or 👎? Read a psychoanalyst’s take below.

#psychology #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #unconscious #unconsciousmind #unconsciousjourneys #communicationskills #relationships #socialmedia #mobiledevice #bigbrother #technology #genz
The Dangers of Engaging Emojis
How 😊🤬👍🙃😍 Destroy Dialogue and Serve Tech Firms (Vol. 5; Issue 30)
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July 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Does technology make us better? Find out in this week's newsletter.
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#technology #cellphone #kindness #ScreenTime #socialskills #psychoanalysis #psychology #unconsciousjourneys
How Technology Reshapes Our Minds
The Enhancing and Weakening Effects of Digitalization (Vol. 5; Issue 25)
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June 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Are you avoiding the news lately? Or rolling your eyes and scrolling past any mention of Trump? It's not just Trump fatigue; it's denial.
#psychology #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #unconscious #unconsciousmind #unconsciousjourneys #donaldtrump #democracy #authoritarianism #nokings #ICEraids #denial
Understanding Trump Fatigue as Denial
Breaking Through Denial of American Autocracy Progressing (Vol. 5; Issue 24)
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June 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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AI is but one addition to the long list of dehumanizing devices causing alienation and anxiety in our society. Read more in this week's essay.

#psychology #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #unconscious #unconsciousmind #unconsciousjourneys #technology #AI #artificialintelligence
Slouching Towards Zombie-Hood
Invitations to Robotics and How to Resist Them (Vol. 5; Issue 22)
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June 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Battered by impulsive orders, shifting tariffs, mass deportations, and unprecedented corruption, American citizens increasingly behave like victims of domestic violence....

#psychology #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #unconsciousjourneys #trump #donaldtrump #democracy #authoritarianism #abuse
Domestic Assaults on the American Public
Fear, Confusion, Anticipatory Obedience, and Resistance (Vol. 5; Issue 21)
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May 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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"Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death." -Jean Cocteau

Read more about time and anxiety below.

#psychology #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #unconsciousmind #unconsciousjourneys #anxiety #presence #meditation #mindfulness #religion
The Anxiety of Life's Wild Ride
How to Escape the Angst of Life's Inevitable Dynamism (Vol. 5; Issue 20)
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May 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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This week's essay explores the motivations and collateral of malignant narcissists, particularly how they infect others around them and how the Trump presidency underscores the danger of this.
#psychoanalysis #psychology #unconsciousmind #unconsciousjourneys #trump #donaldtrump #narcissism
The Virulent Trump Metastases
How Malignant Narcissists Infect the Body Politic (Vol. 5; Issue 19)
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May 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being."
~William James
Read more in this week's essay.
#psychoanalysis #psychology #unconsciousmind #unconsciousjourneys #distraction #presence #technology #addiction #stress #anxiety
Terror of the (Non)-Self
Exploring the Scary Fault Lines of Personal Identity (Vol. 5; Issue 18)
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May 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Humanity ignores the pollution of Earth and contemplates colonizing Mars. In psychoanalytic terms, such avoidance is called displacement. Read more in this two-part essay.

#psychoanalysis #psychology #unconsciousmind #unconsciousjourneys #displacement #denial #mars #space #climatechange
The Delusional Martian (Part 1 of 2)
How the Quest for Colonizing Mars Represents Delusion and Displacement (Vol. 5; Issue 16)
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April 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Laura Loomer provides a breathtakingly dramatic illustration of the dangers of allowing loyalty to trump competency. Read more in this week's essay.

#psychoanalysis #psychology #unconsciousmind #unconsciousjourneys #Trump #loyalty #competency #lauraloomer #authoritarianism
Loyalty Versus Competency in Life
The Perils of Devotion Trumping Proficiency in Various Realms (Vol. 5; Issue 14)
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April 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Americans need truth, not lies and a free press brings us truth. That truth will empower us to begin standing up to the injustices the Trump regime heralds. Read more below.

#psychoanalysis #psychology #unconsciousmind #unconsciousjourneys #Trump #narcissism #freepress #media #authoritarianism
How Free Press Frees Minds
Reflections on Censorship, Anxiety, Hope, and Resistance
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April 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Reducing the pleasure of any of life’s positive experiences to a "dopamine hit" is not only technically incorrect, but it absurdly simplifies. Read more in this week's post.

#psychoanalysis #psychology #unconsciousmind #unconsciousjourneys #dopamine #addiction #dopaminehit #neuroscience
The Reductionism of the Dopamine Hit
How this Phrase and Ridiculous Others Oversimplify and Violate (Vol. 5; Issue 11)
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March 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Trump's pardons of Jan. 6 rioters reinforce the fictional narrative that the 2020 election was stolen from him and show how his egotism overshadows his regard for the law. #psychology #psychoanalysis #unconsciousmind #unconsciousjourneys #trump #january6 #insurrection #capitolriots #panic #anxiety
Why Trump's Pardons Terrify
How Egocentric, Incompetent Leadership Provokes Panic (Vol. 5; Issue 5)
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January 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life. Reflections on physiology & human subjectivity below.
#psychology #psychoanalysis #unconsciousmind #unconsciousjourneys #anatomy #physiology #subjectivity #persepctivism #buddhism #philosophy #nietzsche
From Anatomy to Infinity
An Intricate Journey from Physiology to Human Subjectivity (Vol. 5; Issue 4)
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January 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Watching your home burn to the ground means losing a part of the self. Read more below.
#psychology #psychoanalysis #unconsciousmind #unconscious #unconsciousjourneys #eatonfire #palisadesfire #hurstfire #losangeles #losangeleswildfires #lafires #wildfires #altadena #empathy #loss #grief #trauma
The Terrible Trauma of Wildfires
And the Challenge in Understanding Those Affected by the Fires (Vol. 5; Issue 3)
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January 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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A few rich people, along with Russian-like extortionists, circle around Trump like vultures over fresh roadkill. What happens now? Read more below. #psychology #psychoanalysis #unconsciousjourneys #oligarchy #kleptocracy #billionaires #trump #elonmusk #democracy #suppression #repression #anxiety
The Psychology of Oligarchy
How Thieving Billionaire Leaders Create Apathy (Vol. 5; Issue 2)
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January 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Holiday greeting cards: thoughtful gesture or enemy of love & creativity? Read more in this year's 1st issue of Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind.
#psychology #psychoanalysis #unconsciousjourneys #holidays #depersonalization #isolation #loneliness #narcissism #socialmedia #alienation
January 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM