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Ali Rahnamae
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Men feel plainly enough within their minds a heavy burden, whose
weight depresses them. If only they perceived with equal clearness the causes of this depression, the origin of this lump of evil within breasts, they would not lead such a life as we now see all too commonly—no one knowing what he really wants and everyone forever trying to get away from where he is as though mere locomotion could throw off the load.
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weight depresses them. If only they perceived with equal clearness the causes of this depression, the origin of this lump of evil within breasts, they would not lead such a life as we now see all too commonly—no one knowing what he really wants and everyone forever trying to get away from where he is as though mere locomotion could throw off the load.
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Ali Rahnamae
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My psychoanalytic experience has made me dubious as to whether rational explanations ever quiet anxiety anyway; something else happens, namely, the explanation becomes the vehicle for another mythos that does grasp people on levels deper than rationality. The explanation, e.g. becomes part of the mythos that I, the one doing the explaining, care for you, that you and I can trust and communicate with each other.
— 10 hours, 26 min ago
Ali Rahnamae
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Sentimentality is thinking about sentiment rather than genuinely
experiencing the object of it. Tolstoy tells of the ladies who cry at the theater but are oblivious to their own coachman sitting outside in the freezing cold. Sentimentality glories in the fact that I have this emotion; it begins subjectively and ends there. But care is always caring about something.
— Mar 13, 2026 10:23AM
experiencing the object of it. Tolstoy tells of the ladies who cry at the theater but are oblivious to their own coachman sitting outside in the freezing cold. Sentimentality glories in the fact that I have this emotion; it begins subjectively and ends there. But care is always caring about something.
Ali Rahnamae
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The fact that many people tend not to give themselves time to know each other in love affairs is a general symptom of the malaise of our day. We are the age, says John Galbraith referring to the motels along the highways, of “short order sex.”
— Mar 07, 2026 03:23AM
Ali Rahnamae
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A dynamic dialectical relationship—I am tempted to call it a balance, but it is not a balance—is a continuous give-and-take in which one asserts himself, finds an answer in the other, then possibly asserts too far, senses a “no” in the other, backs up but does not give up, shifts the participation to a new form, and finds the way that is adequate for the wholeness of the other.
— Jul 31, 2023 05:16AM
Ali Rahnamae
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The child who is the “little angel” for too long a period is the one we should worry about; the growing youngster who is a “little devil” at least at times gives us more hope of potentialities for future development.
— Jul 30, 2023 03:29PM
Ali Rahnamae
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Identify with that which haunts you, not in order to fight it off, but to take it into your self; for it must represent some rejected element in you.
— Jul 30, 2023 02:58PM
Ali Rahnamae
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If the daimonic is shown particularly in creativity, we should find the
clearest testimonies to its presence in poets and artists. Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane. Said William Blake, “Every poet is of the Devil’s party.”
— Jul 24, 2023 03:25AM
clearest testimonies to its presence in poets and artists. Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane. Said William Blake, “Every poet is of the Devil’s party.”
Ali Rahnamae
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Eros is the center of the vitality of a culture—its heart and soul. And when release of tension takes the place of creative eros, the downfall of the civilization is assured.
— Jul 07, 2023 06:09AM
Ali Rahnamae
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I am proposing a description of human beings as given motivation by the
new possibilities, the goals and ideals, which attract and pull them toward the future. This does not omit the fact that we are all partially pushed from behind and determined by the past, but it unites this force with its other half. Eros gives us a causality in which “reason why” and “purpose” are united.
— Jul 07, 2023 05:45AM
new possibilities, the goals and ideals, which attract and pull them toward the future. This does not omit the fact that we are all partially pushed from behind and determined by the past, but it unites this force with its other half. Eros gives us a causality in which “reason why” and “purpose” are united.
Ali Rahnamae
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We have been led astray by our economic & biological models to think
that the aim of the love act is the orgasm. The French have a saying: “The aim of desire is not its satisfaction but its prolongation.” André Maurois, speaking of his preference for love-making to which the orgasm is not the goal but an incidental conclusion, quotes another French saying, “Every beginning is lovely.”
— Jul 03, 2023 08:48AM
that the aim of the love act is the orgasm. The French have a saying: “The aim of desire is not its satisfaction but its prolongation.” André Maurois, speaking of his preference for love-making to which the orgasm is not the goal but an incidental conclusion, quotes another French saying, “Every beginning is lovely.”
