The Soother of Evil Pains: Asclepius and Freud

Blacked-out spaces: Freud, censorship and the re-territorialization of mind.

Freud's analogies were legion: hydraulic pipes, military recruitment, magic writing pads. These and some three hundred others took features of the mind and bound them to far-off scenes--the id only very partially resembles an uncontrollable horse, as Freud took pains to note. But there was one relation between psychic and public act that Freud did not delimit in this way: censorship, the proces...

Problem of Evil in Taoism

This paper attempts to present the Taoist understanding of evil. In the Taoist tradition, especially in Tao Te Ching, evil is divided into two categories: causal evil and consequential evil. Causal evils are those evils that are said to be the causes of other evils; consequential evils are those that are said to be the consequences of the causal evils. Causal evils originate from human will, an...

Freud, Rank and, the problem of anxiety

Anxiety has always been a phenomenon of great importance among psychoanalysts. Freud, as the founder of psychoanalysis, took much notice of this phenomenon from the beginning of his career, and he was always trying to give a comprehensive explanation for this problem. Therefore, throughout his career, he modified his theories about anxiety frequently, and even one time, he changed his whole the...

Hospital Employees’ Knowledge of Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil

Background and Objectives: Enjoining good and forbidding (EGFE) evil are two fundamental topics in Islam. Many verses and narratives underscore the social, religious and political duties implied by enjoining good and forbidding evil. After all, these two divine treasures have been neglected because of indulgence and forgetfulness. The prime reason for this negligence seems to be the obliviousne...

Plantinga and the Logical Problem of Evil