The Encyclopedia Britannica provides this illuminating definitions: Phenomenology, a philosophical movement originating in the 20th century, the primary objective of which is the direct investigation and description of phenomena as consciously experienced, without theories about their causal explanation and as… Read More ›
Day: 04/25/2016
PHOTOGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION
There’s a popular rumor that Monet painted water lilies with increasingly less detail … which is to say, more abstract … because as he aged, his eyes got worse. I prefer to think he was consciously developing his art, but since he’s not around… Read More ›
MY FATHER AND FREUD, THE MAN (Part 2) – ELLIN CURLEY
All quotes are from my father’s book, “My Analysis With Freud, Reminiscences” – A. Kardiner, M.D. In 1921 my father went to Vienna to be trained by Sigmund Freud in the new scientific field of psychoanalysis. My previous blog talked about… Read More ›
WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM
When You No Longer Have a Home, Rich Paschall Jimmy knew it was not going to be easy. He had put it off for weeks, but after a while the delay was just as hard as what he perceived the… Read More ›