July 16, 2011
Girl crushed by tree during teacher strike
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8610392/13-year-old-girl-crushed-by-tree-during-teacher-strike.html, published 01 Jul 2011, last verified 7/16/2011
Girl crushed to death by a falling branch as she sat on park bench on the day her…
June 24, 2011
I’m reading ‘In the Basement of the Ivory Tower’ by the pseudonymous ‘Professor X,’ who teaches English 101 and 102 as an adjunct at two unnamed colleges in the North East – one a…
March 6, 2011
In The Interpretation of Dreams, Ch V (p. 210-211 of the Avon edition, Strachey translation, Freud argues:
And there is another objection that can be raised to Robert’s theory. If it were really the business of dreams to relieve our memory of the ‘dregs’ or daytime recollections by a special psychical activity, our sleep would be more tormented and harder worked than our mental life while we are awake. For the number of indifferent impressions from which our memory would need to be protected is clearly immensely large: the night would not be long enough to cope with such a mass. It is far more likely that the process of forgetting indifferent impressions goes forward without the active intervention of our psychical forces.
August 8, 2010
Analysis of Paul Vitz’s psychoanalytic argument against Obama:
Are the Sins of the Fatherless the Root of Obama’s Tyranny?
Does Obama’s anti-democratic ideology result from his dysfunctional childhood? An intriguing book, Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, by Paul Vitz, argues this type background is a common precursor to the classic tyrant’s personality. This suggests Barack’s beef with America might result from his own deficient past.
-Forms of Reasoning-,
Ad Hominem,
Analysis,
Appeal to Authority,
Appeal to Fear,
Attack on Character,
Fallacies of Relevance,
Featured,
Genetic fallacy,
Political Science,
Psychoanalysis used as argument