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psychology

To alleviate existential anxiety

PSYCHOLOGY: Is it possible to value your own time when you are struggling to make ends meet? Can the fear of an energy crisis be lessened by a fairer distribution? And can knowledge of intelligence beyond that of humans alleviate our times' uncertainty and sense of isolation?
Sarah Waring -

A good life without more and more of everything

GREEN GROWTH: MODERN TIMES has chosen to print an extract from the book Grønt manifesto by our regular critic. "Quality of life rather than forced growth": Three small but powerful words, which provide a key to changing the direction of social development, where our eternal pursuit of 'the most possible' is rather adjusted to the appreciation of 'adequate'.
Svein Hammer -

Why do we resort to bombs and guns?

WAR: Christopher Blattman's long-term project has been to explore the reasons why conflict between groups and nations erupts into war.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

Is it a national goal to create happy citizens?

HAPPINESS: Joy has recently become a large 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 -

To fill the void

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

At the price of fetishism

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

Night is a light source in man

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

Mental health under the Solberg government

Are the government's policies really compatible with their own commitment to better mental health?
torekierulfnaess@hotmail.com -

Orgastic potency

I now intend to put a preliminary sentence for this column with a theme that is quite close to Wilhelm Reich himself: his concept of ...
torekierulfnaess@hotmail.com -

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