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Women, Rape and Ethnic Cleansing
In this age, when satellites are going to Mars and new cars and phones are being created every day, this world silently allows the systematic brutal rape of women -from medieval times to now- as a means of ethnic cleansing.
Hummingbird
Before anything had a soul,
While life was a heave of Matter, half inanimate,
This little bit chipped off in brilliance
And went whizzing through the slow, vast, succulent stems.
D H Lawrence:Feminist, Contrary, Caring
Before anything had a soul,
While life was a heave of Matter, half inanimate,
This little bit chipped off in brilliance
And went whizzing through the slow, vast, succulent stems.
Passover: Liberation from Slavery
The matzo symbolizes both the Hebrews’ suffering while in bondage and the haste with which they left Egypt in the course of the Exodus.
Snake
Was it cowardice, that I dared not kill him?
Was it perversity, that I longed to talk to him?
Was it humility, to feel so honoured?
I felt so honoured.
Afternoon in School: The Last Lesson
When will the bell ring, and end this weariness?
How long have they tugged the leash, and strained apart
My pack of unruly hounds
If You Are A Man
Pic: Malith d karunarathne David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects…
The Elephant is Slow to Mate
The elephant, the huge old beast,
is slow to mate; he finds a female,
they show no haste
they wait
D H Lawrence: Feminist or Anti-Feminist?
His women have sexual appetites, and orgasms, and sex before and outside marriage; they are presented without fetishisation or disapproval; such women had never been seen in English fiction before.
Kakar: What is the Kamasutra?
Kamasutra is a book about the art of living—about finding a partner, maintaining power in marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan and also about the positions in sexual intercourse. The Kamasutra has attained its classical status because it is at bottom about essential, unchangeable human attributes—lust, love, shyness, rejection, seduction, manipulation.Sign up to Premium for more
Kamasutra: Valentine’s Takeaways!
The Kamasutra has attained its classical status because it is at bottom about essential, unchangeable human attributes—lust, love, shyness, rejection, seduction, manipulation.
Brains: Different for Men and Women?
The findings reinforce long-held, but controversial, gender stereotypes that men excel when concentrating on single perception-based activities such as map reading, while women are more effective when multitasking or working in groups, the researchers claim.
Psychoanalysis, Politics and Society:Freud, Arendt, Fanon
Repression, however, is an important achievement of humankind; we sublimate desires to achieve a more socially valued state of existence and it is civilisation that arises out of this.However, too much repression and we become sick..
Women volunteers, gender devaluation ‘moral economy’
The question is this: are community psychosocial workers merely a stopgap for the world’s poorest—stemming a deluge of need without looking upstream to its sources—or are they key players in a forward-looking movement to achieve a more equitable distribution of mental health globally?
Capitalism, Feminism and Psychoanalysis: 1970 – 2020
That so many species are threatened, that the climate is out of control, that water is becoming a rare treasure – all of this is a by-product of ruthless competition between billionaire predators and that scientific progress is anarchically subservient to marketable technologies.
My Kitchen, My Queendom
uring the extended period of the Covid-19 lockdown in India last year, the social media was flooded with images of food. Each photograph outdid the other.
Women, across India experimented with ingredients in their kitchens. They cooked with a never-before frenzy.
Porn: Harmless or bad ?
Meanwhile, Voon says there is good evidence that excessive consumption of porn can lead to ‘habituation’: the desire for novel stimuli. This means regular viewers crave more hardcore scenes the more they watch. This is a trend that many men have reported anecdotally and sought treatment for.
Falling Sperm Count and Human Survival
Epidemiologist Shanna Swan says low counts and changes to sexual development could endanger human species. Miranda Bryant, the Guardian. March 2021. Falling sperm counts and changes to sexual development are…
Some patients taking SSRIs develop insomnia, skin rashes, headaches, joint and muscle pain, stomach upset, nausea, or diarrhea. These problems are usually temporary or mild or both.
Do you Forget or Remember Dreams?
Vallat says dreaming “is one of the last frontiers in our understanding of the human mind.”
A New Theory of Dreams ?
Hoel’s answer is that the human brain prevents overfitting by dreaming. He says dreaming evolved specifically to deal with this problem, which is common to all neural networks.
20 Things you Didn’t Know About Learning
By eavesdropping on their mothers while in the womb, babies pick up the sound patterns of their native tongue.
Brain and Memory Making- a Study
Some scientists are exploring how people store and retrieve memories as they move through a virtual reality environment.
‘Sukoon’ for Families going through Divorce in India
Couples experiencing marital distress approach courts to make important decisions about their marital relationships. This journey from a private life to a public space like court may not be an easy one for many couples and may have dense emotional and psychological undertones. It is therefore pertinent to have a space to deal with mental health, stress, and well being related issues in the court set up.
Awe Inspiring Walks around the UK
Almost any stretch of the 630-mile South West Coast Path from Minehead, Somerset, to Poole Harbour, Dorset, will inspire awe.
Letter to Rachel-Part 1
The Fall is really an awakening. It’s our consciousness realizing that some of the things we believed in are actually a bit of a charade.
One Fine Day: Extreme Crises and Survival
‘One Fine Day’ is for anyone (rich or poor, black or white, old or young, etc.) and anywhere. And we all will have a new normal from it that we need to face.”
Fostering Humaneness: Sudhir Kakar
My emphasis on the desirability of a caring, compassionate person as the outcome of psychoanalytic therapy is not because of any subscription to religious, moral prescriptions or secular ideologies, but because of recognition of the nature of human reality—namely, that each one of us is deeply embedded with other human beings as also connected to animate and inanimate nature, an order that is only kept from breaking down by… humaneness.
Reframing Ageing: Growing, Not Slowing
Our ongoing experience of life, and how we tell and re-tell our own stories over time, usually involves increasing self-awareness, developing personal authenticity and expressing our unique identity, whilst continuing meaningful and purposeful engagement with the world and others.
The Power of Poetry
My Romany family have influenced my Romany poems, especially my granny, mother, great grandparents, grandfather and also my Welsh family who are gadje (non Romany).
Social Media and Shame
For better or worse, the internet and social media have significantly amplified humanity’s means of public shaming, taking victims from the town square to a global network of connected screens.
Anti Depressants Decrease Empathy?
After three months of antidepressant treatment, the research revealed relevant differences: patients reported their level of empathy to be lower, and brain activation was reduced in areas previously associated with empathy.
Origins of Empathy
Mafessoni and Lachmann posited that animals, including humans, can engage in the act of simulating the minds of others.
Couple Therapy for Friendship?
She has heard other friends talk about that same feeling of excitement when it comes to the very beginning of a new, platonic relationship.
Sleep, Emotion and Memory
When you slip into sleep, it’s easy to imagine that your brain shuts down, but University of Michigan research suggests that groups of neurons activated during prior learning keep humming, tattooing memories into your brain.
