A Phenomenology of Euphoria
A phenomenological exploration of euphoria, integrating Heidegger's concept of mood with Csikszentmihalyi's flow, Nietzsche's affirmation, Sartre's magic, and Durkheim's collective effervescence.
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The Phenomenology of Personality Disorder
An exploration of personality disorder - what does it mean to be-in-the-world with intense emotions.
Read More →The Weight of Existence: A Phenomenology of Depression
Depression is explored not as a mere sadness but as a fundamental alteration of lived time and space where the future collapses and the world loses its solicitation.
Read More →The Labyrinth of the Self: A Phenomenology of Complex PTSD
Complex PTSD reveals itself not merely as a reaction to past events but as a fundamental alteration of the lived world, where the boundaries between self, time and other are reshaped by the experience of prolonged captivity.
Read More →The Phenomenology of Desire: The forces that shape human longing
Nietzsche, Lacan, Girard, and Deleuze and Guattari offer distinct yet complementary phenomenological accounts of desire, revealing it not as a simple longing for objects but as a complex social force shaped by power dynamics, the gaze of others, mimetic rivalry, and productive flows that constitute human subjectivity itself.
Read More →A Phenomenology of Masking: On Concealment, Recognition, and Authentic Selfhood
Exploring how marginalised people are compelled to hide their authentic identities to survive in oppressive societies, analyzing this psychological burden through Simone de Beauvoir's concept of gendered masking and Frantz Fanon's theory of racial objectification.
Read More →The Fog of Memory: A Phenomenology of Trauma
Phenomenology reveals trauma not as a set of symptoms but as a catastrophic rupture of lived experience that shatters temporal unity, alienates the body, transforms the world into a hostile environment, and severs the intersubjective bonds of trust, fundamentally exiling survivors from the shared reality of everyday life.
Read More →Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is a brief, structured intervention designed for individuals with complex trauma, which helps them process fragmented traumatic memories by constructing a coherent, chronological lifeline (or testimony) that integrates both moments of trauma and positive life events, thereby restoring a sense of agency and historical context.
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