The Examined Life chronicles the cases of thirty-one patients who, we are told, have collectively spent more than 50,000 hours in analysis with Grosz. These are not really case studies, at least not in the classical style of psychoanalysis or even psychiatry. The comparison that comes to mind, and may well have served as a [...]
Surprisingly, the study shows that thousands of mutations take place in the genome of each neuron: one by one, mutations occur within genes, between genes, fragments of DNA are gained or lost, as are the functions that have been identified –or not- as playing a part in certain illnesses. It seems these mutations occur by [...]
Despite the echo it received in the press –where it was described as a “punch”, a “jab”, a “swing” or “knock-out response”-, Ali’s reply did not, in fact, feel like anything like a knock-out. Donald Trump did not go down in the first, or even 5th round (as did Sonny Liston or Henry Cooper in [...]
