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Is it a national goal to create happy citizens?

Edgar Cabanas, Eva Illouz: Manufacturing Happy Citizens – How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control our Lives

HAPPINESS: Joy has recently become a big and lucrative business in most of the western world. New book takes a wise assessment of modern society's pursuit of happiness, and concludes that happiness in many cases is illusory.
Hans Henrik Fafner -
literature

To fill the void

Jeannette Fischer: Psychoanalyst meets Marina Abramović

: PERFORMANCE: Is it possible to get to know the art of Marina Abramović on a psychoanalytic level, where childhood and parents have played a crucial role?
Pinar Ciftci -
internationally

At the price of fetishism

: Mankind's pathetic sexual history finds its most conceptual and poetic version in fetish worship.
paulb@nytid.no -
literature

Night is a light source in man

Aksel Haaning: Jung. A voice from the deep

: A better understanding of human nature is needed, since the only real threat that exists is man himself.
Alexander Carnera -
internationally

Mental health under the Solberg government

: Is the government's policy really compatible with their own commitment to better mental health?
torekierulfnaess@hotmail.com -
COMMENT

Orgastic potency

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