Month: July 2024

Let us regard the story of Adam and Eve not as literal history but as a poetic hint at the psycho-social transformation of man and human nature. What does it tell us? After indulging in his morally expensive meal, Adam was never the same again: Henceforth he knew right from wrong! In brief, his self developed […]

A recent murder case offers a striking example of the refusal, by legal and psychiatric authorities, to treat a person as a contracting individual; and of their attempt, instead, to treat him as an inferior, defective object, in need of repair—that is, as a psychiatric patient (Wiseman, 1961). In this case, the person refused to accept […]