The Love and many loves

Adriana Tanese-Nogueira

In our idealized cultural romanticism, we still refer to hypostatized concepts. Hypostases is a philosophical notion that originally means “substance”, but which with the evolution of human thinking gained the connotation of an abstraction considered as real, a fiction.

The quite spread idea of Love is, for example, an hypostases. A concept around which there’s a lot of respect and veneration, but

False New Men (Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing)

Adriana Tanese-Nogueira

Some men seem to display a psychological advance when they value, apparently in an unselfish way, women and the feminine in general. This would be a really step ahead since the appreciation of the feminine, in the patriarchal horizon, happens as long as from women a man can obtain something: her body, her work, her generous and meek availability.

There are men who, conversely to tradition, appear to highlight women’s power and to stimulate them to guard it and exercise it.

The Four Psychological Types

Adriana Tanese-Nogueira

Why people react and interpret the same events in such different ways? Since 1913, Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) posed this question to himself.

The Fury of the Ego

Adriana Tanese-Nogueira

The Ego in his (I’ll intentionally use the masculine to refer to the Ego for it is a masculine dimension of the psyche) primitive state, that is with no consciousness, is an a-moral powerful force, whose goal is to strengthen himself (that is, a psychological complex that tends to maintain himself steady and continue in time). Anything that adds to his power is considered a value. Having a structured and resistant Ego is a psychological need on what depends the mental health of the person and their success in life. However and unfortunately, what happens the most is the

Naivety

 Adriana Tanese-Nogueira

Naivety is a natural state of the child’s soul, a spontaneous condition of the beginning of life. Everything is new and has to be explored, because of ingenuity we venture, trust, test and learn. And here lays the final goal: learning.

With the years passing by, naivety should give place to wisdom, which consists in some bitter notes and some sweet ones. It happens though that when ingenuity slips away, it is substituted by sorrow before life and the world, leading to disbelief and misanthropy. This is one of the

Conscience

Adriana Tanese Nogueira

Conscience is discernment. Having conscience is leaving the blurry vision, the confuse understanding and the misty feeling. Having conscience is seeing with clarity through mind’s eyes, disentangling, dividing and uniting. It’s getting oriented and finding the way.

The “Foolishness” We Dream

Adriana Tanese-Nogueira

Imagine that an unknown individual comes to talk to you. Weird sounds are produces by his moths and you get to think what is it is that he is trying to say to you. The individual is dressed in a strange way you have never seen before. You are not feeling like making new contacts now and this one demands too much effort. You have other things in your mind and are not willing to think more than what you already need. And you start to feel impatient.

The Act of Getting Conscious

Adriana Tanese Nogueira

You have been living in this house called Ego for a long time. It has several rooms and you have your favorite spaces. Some corners of the house are constantly illuminated, because you spend much time there and know each detail of them. There are rooms where you only go sometimes, they mean sporadic experiences depending on opportunity and company. Each one of these rooms, with their furniture, sounds, colors and objects, tell about you. And you are accustomed to them.

Oração do Tempo - Caetano Veloso

The Limit of Life

Adriana Tanese Nogueira

Life is limited. Many people don’t realize that, they mentally know it as an abstract truth, with no internal resonance. The interior “click” that occurs when the thought meets the correspondent feeling didn’t happen to them. True, life gets to an end and, sooner or later, everybody wakes up to that.

Limits of time are unmercifully useful. They force us to choose among the many ways we have to spend our time which one makes

The Comfort of Stereotypes

Adriana Tanese Nogueira

Who hasn’t ever wished not having certain feelings and thoughts? Who hasn’t desired to eliminate questions and doubts that emerge in our mind without being asked for?

There are moments in which we would give anything to say, yes, we like to do this thing or go to that place, or being that person… It would be so simple. And, instead, it’s only with a great effort that we can repress threatening thoughts and feelings and concentrate all our will on what we believe others do or are in such easiness.