Caravaggio’s Dagger – A Pursuit of Right Action

Caravaggio - The Beheading of John the Baptist - Detail, with the signature of the artist in the prophet's blood

Do we, then, find ourselves unable to know how to act ethically in our society — a society that glorifies money and global trade to make the rich richer, that deposits the poor at the outermost edges of community, that stands aside as our heritage disintegrates, that funds wars that dislocate peoples and destroy countries, that supports beliefs steeped […]

Mahler and Freud Meet in Leiden

The subject of Mahler and Freud Meet in Leiden, which is available here, is the contract life imposes on a human being as the fundamental condition of its existence. It is explored as the unstated, never negotiated covenant between existence and life; that is, the conditional situation that existence provides to those that live within it, and the […]