Adam Blatner
Words and Images from the Mind of Adam Blatner
April, 2008
Beyond Narcissism: Ideal Child Development
This mini-essay is aimed at broadening our sense of what the core motivations are for children (and adults). The Freudian view has been excessively reductionistic, and even more contemporary efforts to expand the set of what are considered to be core motivations don’t go far enough. The concept of “primary narcissism” in particular is a […]
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Economic Sociology: A Fresh View
I’ve been thinking about what helps people find and sustain an optimal level of a sense of social connectedness. It occurred to me that part of the problem is that it seems mundane, almost a matter of economics—not of money, but of an exchange of talent and interest. Sure, there are some elements of non-neurotic […]
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Hermeneutics: The Art of Interpretation
In fields that have to do with mind, more than in the hard sciences, there is a major expansion of the influence of various points of view. Fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, economics, politics, communications studies, and so forth all are embedded in matrices of viewpoints. These viewpoints include such variables as factuality, […]
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