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2025-09-04

Tags: Psychology

The first part of the book deals in a more descriptive manner in what is the puer aeternis archetype and how the puer presents himself to the world and himself. Next, parallels with The Little Prince are made to the puer and a connection to Saint-Exupery being a puer himself - mother complex, addicted to flying, driven and creative only when the mood struck. After this there are more parallels of the puer made with the book The Kingdom Without Space; this book sounds very interesting, but the connections between it and the puer are more difficult (but not impossible) to see without the more detailed reasoning given in much of the earlier chapters dealing with The Little Prince. I really enjoyed the first, more concrete, part of the book where the mannerisms and reasoning why someone might follow the puer aeternis path. The latter half of the book was interesting, but also long winded and more of a book review where Jung's psychology was projected (or interpreted) into the two books.

The Act of Creation

2018-07-12

Tags: Creativity · Psychology

While likely a less-than-reputable person given his influences and acquaintances, it can not be denied that this, like many of his other works, are at a minimum thought provoking. One of the main concepts explored in the book is bisociation; connecting two unrelated frames into a novel concept. These frames can be learned in any traditional manner (rote, etc) or conditioned into a subject a la Pavlov, Skinner, or Watson's experiments. Either way, to move from one frame to another, solving a problem usually, one needs creativity and originality more than genius (though having both is obviously best). Genius, Koestler and other argue, is a mind with general power toward in a particular direction and the ability to make bisociations.

Introducing Evolutionary Psychology

2017-11-16

Tags: Evolution · History · Psychology

An evolutionary look at psychology assuming that the mind is made up of modules that have evolved independently and in different environments. This view follows the older behaviorist belief that actions were caused, not by the mind, but by environmental stimulation. A core of evolutionary psychology is to look at the mind's computer modules made for processing information. Some of these modules are supposed to lead to certain innately human abilities including language, physical attractiveness, and food preferences that seem to span all cultures. The conclusion is that our minds have evolved in an environment that is totally foreign to our current environment; we are essentially monkeys living in the fast lane.

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