“Brexit means Brexit,” was her slogan during the leadership campaign – but what does that actually mean?
The terminology applied to therapies that are outside the realm of mainstream medicine varies widely and has evolved over time.
We contrast this flexible, conscious control that we enjoy with the involuntary action of, say, our heartbeat or digestion, and with the instinctual imperative of abird’s nest-building or a dog’s conditioned response.
Kittens and puppies and human children are notorious for this kind of “enhancement.” It is sometimes referred to as competence motivation.
Pascal’s lifelong task became an exercise of endlessly reducing words to their essence, in order to probe a pure nothingness and bring us to its edge. For him, allfinite things are fragments, for they are nothing but pieces torn from infinity. All the same, the nature of finitude is such that not even a vast quantity of fragmentscould ever approach wholeness, ‘a unit added to infinity does not increase infinity at all, any more than a foot added to an infinite length’.
According to the passage, what kind of evidence does the author cite in support of his claim that we react with various degrees of violence to attacks on our self-esteem?
