“The ability to empathize also plays a role in relation to our own body. Our bodies are in essence foreign to ourselves. It responds to all kinds of stimuli -food, other people, all kinds of situations- and they do so autonomously, without our knowledge of volition. We can learn to feel our body throughout our lives, for example through certain movement-based arts or meditation, by attentively observing the effects of all kinds of factors (nutrition, exercise, etc) on our body, possibly by repeatedly putting our physical experiences into words during psychoanalytic therapy. Whoever listens to his body and learns to understand its language holds the key to health. The feeling with one's own body is more important than any medicine and also more important than any "objective" rational knowledge, of for instance, healthy food.” LifeBodyDeathPsychologyHealthTherapyBiologyHuman BeingMechanistic View Book:The Psychology of Totalitarianism Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“It is also throught this art that we, as human beings, and more broadly as a culture and society, can relate differently to death. Within a mechanistic and biological-reductionistic view of man, suffering, decay, and death can only be meaningless; they cannot be seen as something that has something to say and teach us as human beings. This is perhaps the biggest problem with the Great Mechanistic Narrative: The ultimate master of the sublunary -death- has not been given an acceptable part in it.” LifeDeathPsychologyBiologyHuman BeingMechanistic View Book:The Psychology of Totalitarianism Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“The ability to sense one's own experience and to put it into words and to express it in relation to another is what constitutes the core of our existence as human beings.” LifeWisdomDeathPsychologyExperienceBiologyHuman BeingMechanistic View Book:The Psychology of Totalitarianism Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism