Lou Agosta, Ph.D Archive
This is a live event – you are invited – on July 14, 2016 – Bastille Day – from 6:00 to 7;30 PM at the Gleacher Center of the Graham School (UChicago) at 450 Cityfront Plaza Drive (Chicago, IL 60611) …
The city of Venice itself is the most significant symbol in Thomas Mann’s story. Even in 1912, when Death in Venice was published, Venice was sinking into the swamp on which in was built, sinking back into the unexpressed in the sense of …
By the end of George Makari’s engaging – indeed monumental – Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (W.W. Norton 2016: 652 pp.) one comes to understand that the modern mind is more ancient than most people believe and the …
Putting ourselves in the situation of people who lived years ago in a different historical place and time is a challenge. For example, before technological advances in medicine such as penicillin, common infections,wounds, and injuries would often proven to be …
Kant famously asserted he was awakened from his “dogmatic slumbers” by studying Hume. This occurred not only in Kant’s theory of knowledge, but also in taste, aesthetics, and the communicability of feelings. Immanuel Kant The “communicability of feelings” (1790/93a: …
The neurochemical reshaping of personality has had many unanticipated consequences. I acknowledge that the debate is not ended by the Chapter in my A Rumor of Empathy on “Plato Not Prozac,” the name of which is hereby acknowledged to be from …
One person’s empathy is another’s countertransference. I will not confess my weaknesses, since they will be obvious to the reader in any case. The short – very short – definition of “countertransference” is one’s reaction and response to the other …
If the survivor can feel safe enough to express what happened into an empathic receptivity in the context of a trusting environment that does not retraumatize by skepticism and cross-examination, then the abuse, the boundary violations, and the perpetrations, begin …
Empathy is like oxygen for the soul (according to a famous statement by Heinz Kohut). So if you are experiencing a shortness of breath, the commitment of these books and the radio show is to expand the flow of oxygen …
Join me and my special guest musician, teacher, and composer Mischa Zupko for a conversation about music, the emotions, empathy, and community on Wednesday June 3rd at noon Chicago time on Mischa Zupko, Composer VoiceAmerica Empowerment Radio. Click here for …
