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...self-help payoff to my work, but it takes almost the opposite form of the love calculator. I spend a lot of my time trying to de-idealize love, to undermine the criterion of “success” in love. I have always been drawn to really tragic accounts of impossible love. I know lots of people find this really depressing, but somehow for me it’s sustaining. I guess it’s partly the solace of shared misery, but also I think it takes the pressure off. And it’s a nice...
...horrific and real as the news that the World Trade Center had been attacked. Although I didn’t come away with a more informed opinion of who’s right and who’s wrong, I did gain a better perspective on this tragic dispute and left with a desire to learn more...
...good old days of Sigmund Freud! You reported that his understanding of the complexity and mystery of the human mind has been unsurpassed. He insisted that the human condition is more than mental health or illness, that it is both tragic and majestic in scope. We have better living through chemistry and self-help bromides for happiness. As a no-longer-practicing therapist, I have seen the rise of the so-called dramatic cluster of personality disorders. Have you noticed an increase in such disorders in our political and corporate leaders as we witness their unbridled narcissism and antisocial traits...
...United States will always welcome visitors from foreign countries, but after the tragic events of September 11th, it is clear that we have to understand better who is entering and exiting our country,” Attorney General John Ashcroft said this fall when he announced the program...
ABOUT SCHMIDT. About Schmidt, in a bizarrely somber, comedic fashion, is possibly the most depressing film of Jack Nicholson’s long career. His performance as a retired insurance executive is a deeply complex and hilariously tragic portrayal of the most banal aspects of one man’s post-mid-life crisis. Director Alexander Payne, famous for his digressions on suburban angst in films such as Election and Citizen Ruth, keeps the tone light and the characters archetypally and delicously bizarre. About Schmidt screens...