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  • Victim of Inferiority Complex?
    Adler --as opposed to Sigmund Fred-- believed that striving for superiority is the most basic human drive (not sexuality). Yet when we fall short we tend to blame others, we become victims of the inferiority complex.
    Posted: 2010-02-16
    Category: Self Improvement
  • Pascal on Love and Fidelity
    Far be it from me to criticize Pascal, but I do want to add my own reading to his thoughts on Fidelity and love.
    Posted: 2010-02-12
    Category: Self Improvement
  • Daisy Buchanan: a Strange Beauty and Echolalia
    Lord Bacon's axiom, "There's no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion," prompts readers perhaps to seek out the strangeness --lack of balance-- that makes a particular character beautiful.
    Posted: 2010-02-10
    Category: Writing & Speaking
  • The Power to Change Us: Hawthorne
    Readers bring their own experiences to the novel and will present the novel's theme to their consciousness where it will linger and perhaps make them change for the good.This is the transformative power of literature.
    Posted: 2010-02-07
    Category: Writing & Speaking
  • Rousseau: Genre and Writing
    In this article I will focus on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions to explore his contribution not only to the genre, but also to writing.
    Posted: 2010-02-07
    Category: Writing & Speaking
  • Derrida on Writing
    Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2007), born in Algiers, is the founder of the philosophical movement called Deconstruction. But the object to this article is to learn how to understand 'writing,' as a metaphysical system.
    Posted: 2010-02-03
    Category: Writing & Speaking
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne and Magic Realism
    If one considers magic realism to be a literary genre that combines fantastic or dreamlike elements with realism; that places fabulous narratives in a normal, quotidian contemporary world, then writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, John Cheever, Toni Morrison and William Kennedy qualify for inclusion in the magic realism genre.
    Posted: 2010-02-02
    Category: Writing & Speaking
  • Erasmus of Rotterdam on Sentence Variation, Sentence Openers, and Ambiguity
    In discussing the methods of sentence variation by using allegory and proverbs —which at times result in enigmas— in his book On Copia, Erasmus recommends some things should be left vague, so that readers get involved and learn on their own.
    Posted: 2010-01-30
    Category: Writing & Speaking