The Horizon of Reason

Exploring the boundaries of logic and perception

Tag: Freud

Know Thyself

One’s own is well hidden for one’s
own; and of all treasure troves, one’s
own is the last to be excavated . . .

Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra

Heraclitus and Freud

It dawned me a little while ago that the human condition is one of ongoing tension between the way the world is (ontology) and the way our mind works (psychology).
The world is inherently unpredictable – even our best attempts to make it predictable ultimately fail. We have trouble predicting the weather more then a few [...]